Is there Python equivalent to Perl BEGIN{} block?

[Aahz]

In article <hMWdnSLNjsLJH0TanZ2dnUVZ_qDinZ2d at comcast.com>,
Jeff Schwab  <jeff at schwabcenter.com> wrote:
>
>I write maybe a dozen one-liners a day.  It's not practical to do this 
>with Python, or at least it's not nearly as convenient as Perl.  

That is a defensible position, but my take is that writing the one-liners
in Python is more convenient than remembering enough Perl to make writing
one-liners useful.  Especially when the one-liners often start expanding.
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