Note on PEP 299

[faulkner]

http://home.comcast.net/~faulkner612/programming/python/mainer.py
turns
if __name__ == '__main__': sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
into
import mainer

bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
> I don't like much the syntax of:
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>
> Some time ago I have read this PEP:
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0299/
>
> And why it was refused:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/062955.html
>
> I think the name of the standard main function may be just main(), so
> there isn't the problem with the import (and *maybe* the problem with
> multiple Python versions can be ignored with Python 3.0).
>
> If a module contains the main(), the main() is executed when the module
> is run alone. Otherwise you can import the module, with the main()
> function managed as a normal function.
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile