about functions question

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-10-25, Bruno Desthuilliers
<bruno.42.desthuilliers at wtf.websiteburo.oops.com> wrote:
> The canonical case for small scripts is to have first all
> functions and globals defined, then the main code protected by
> a guard, ie:

There's no reason to "protect" your main code in a small script.

> if __name__ == '__main__':
>    print SOME_CONST
>    if not do_something():
>      try_somethin_else()

That idiom is useful in modules for launching tests or examples
that should not be run when the module is imported.

-- 
Neil Cerutti