[Distutils] zc.buildout: bootstrap.py script

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Tue Apr 6 17:22:24 CEST 2010


On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:50:33AM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:08 AM, René Fleschenberg
>> <rene at fleschenberg.net> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > The code in bootstrap.py doesn't use the if __name__ == "__main__" idiom.
>> > This can lead to funny behaviour if it is imported for some reason (I
>> > stumbled upon this in conjunction with nose).
>> >
>> > Is there a reason for not checking for __name__ == "__main__", or should
>> > this be changed?
>>
>> I don't see any goog reason not to have a __main__ section,
>>
>> +1 for changing this
>
> There's an open bug for it, with a patch attached (not that you need a
> patch for something this trivial):
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/zc.buildout/+bug/303432
>
> I assume Jim is just busy.
>
> I assume anyone with commit access to Zope SVN could change this and
> release a zc.buildout point release, if Jim has no objections.  Jim?

Nope. +1

Jim

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