[Python-Dev] User's complaints

[Aaron Bingham]

Aaron Bingham wrote:

>Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
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>>Why not simply:
>>
>>   def __main__():
>>       ...
>>
>>or even pass in the command-line arguments:
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>>   def __main__(*args):
>>       ...
>>
>>Having to 'import sys' to get at the command-line arguments always
>>seemed awkward to me.  'import sys' feels like it should be a
>>privileged operation (access to interpreter internals), and getting
>>the command-line args isn't privileged.
>> 
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>+1, seems a lot more elegant than "if __name__ == '__main__'"
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Just to clarify, I was writing in support of Ping's suggestion of def 
__main__() or def __main__(*args).  The decorator-based solution is ugly.

Regards,

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Aaron Bingham
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Cenix BioScience GmbH
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