Faking out __name__ == __main__

[Josiah Carlson]

bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:05:59 -0500, Ed Leafe <ed at leafe.com> wrote:
>  >>> def test():
>  ...     d = {'__name__': '__xxxx__'}
>  ...     execfile('tmain.py', d)

I believe it is technically more Pythonic to use __import__ rather than
execfile, if only because you have access to the module itself when you
are done.


 - Josiah