2.1.1 global weirds

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

> The real wart I feel is that the module a has two names, one when run as
> a script and the other when imported. 
> 
> I suppose there is some overriding implementation issue, but it seems to
> me that in the file a.py
> 
> __file__ and __name__ ought always to be defined and given the
> appropriate 'right' values.

What would you want to do if the script is not named "a.py" but "a"?
__name__ is supposed to be a valid entry into sys.modules.
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