Python end of file marker similar to perl's __END__

[Steve Holden]

Stargaming wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:44:21 +0000, Michele Simionato wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 1, 5:53 am, beginner <zyzhu2... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> This is just a very simple question about a python trick.
>>>
>>> In perl, I can write __END__ in a file and the perl interpreter will
>>> ignore everything below that line. This is very handy when testing my
>>> program. Does python have something similar?
>> I wished from something like that. What you can do at the moment, is to
>> comment or triple quote the code you don't want to run.
> 
> Or, if in a function body, you could insert a `return` statement. When in 
> top-level code, invoking `sys.exit` (or exit/quit) can do the trick. A 
> ``raise Exception`` might help, too, but could be kinda distracting 
> sometimes.
> 
> So, there is no general purpose solution as perl has it (I guess that 
> __END__ works everywhere at least), rather different solutions for 
> different cases.

I think you have missed the point. A return statement or call to 
sys.exit() doesn't remove the requirement that the rest ofthe source 
file be legal Python. In a Perl program you can put anything you like 
after __END__.

regards
  Steve
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