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[Andrew Kuchling]

David Lees <debl at nonospamyytheworld.com> writes:
> You have diagnosed the problem.  I wrote this particular code as a
> standalone, command line driven routine that has defaults when no
> arguments are present.  So when I import my module it uses defaults,
> which are intended for a linux box at work, not the Win98 box at home
> and it hangs.  Clearly sloppyness on my part.  I need to do some error
> checking.

You probably want to add a block like this to run the main-line code;
it won't get executed when the module is imported by another module.

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # Invoke your command-line code here
    ...

Search through the standard library for lots of examples of this
idiom.

--amk