PyChecker must execute script?

Trent Mick trentm at ActiveState.com
Wed Feb 5 16:44:50 EST 2003


[Geoff Gerrietts wrote]
> I believe PyChecker imports the modules, and analyzes the resulting
> bytecode.

Yes.

> If you have not included an "if __name__ == '__main__':" conditional,
> then it is likely that importing the module and running it will be
> fundamentally identical.

To be more specific. If you put all top-level executing code within a
    if __name__ == "__main__":
        # top-level code here
block then you will be fine.


Trent

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