Newbie trying to understand __name__=='__main__'

[Hamish Lawson]

Dan Schmidt wrote:

> You're putting that if statement inside the class, which seems really
> odd.  I don't know if it's even legal.

Though it was the wrong thing for this situation, having an if
statement in a class definition is perfectly legal. This is quite a
nice feature as it lets you do things like conditionally define a class
at runtime.

class SomeClass:

    if condition():
        def someMethod(self):
            print "Do it this way"
    else:
        def someMethod(self):
            print "Do it the other way"


Hamish Lawson


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