On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Graham Dumpleton <
graham.dumple...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 March 2012 14:36, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > Why give them a __name__ at all? Aren't they scripts, rather than
> modules?
> > ISTM that not having a __name__ would also let things like pickles fail
> > faster. That is, code that expected a module rather than a script would
> > break right away.
>
> Because not having a __name__ attribute at all would make:
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> ...
>
> fail straight away and people quite often had that in scripts so they
> could run it directly as well with a pure WSGI server.
>
Well, they could always replace it with "if globals().get('__name__',
'__main__')== '__main__':", I suppose. ;-)
>
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