[Python-Dev] Magic main functions

[Ilya Sandler]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> Perhaps this means that -m is premature?  I personally would rather wait
> for 2.5 if it means we get a nice, future-proof "main" convention out of
> the deal.  While -m would not then be "backward compatible" with existing
> scripts, people could start changing scripts to match the convention as
> soon as there was an accepted PEP.

But to me -m option and __main__() conventions seem like orthogonal
features...

Even if  current __name__=="__main__" blocks get replaced by a magic
__main__() function, you would still benefit from -m cmd line option


Or is there some hidden dependency?

Ilya









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