Is it possible to create C-style "main" function in Python? (for teaching purposes)

[Dave Angel]

On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, rantingrick wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2:14 pm, Dave Angel<da... at ieee.org>  wrote:
>
>> Like it or not, there are plenty of globals already there, one of them
>> being __name__ .  All the built-ins are effectively global, and so
>>    is any function they define at top-level.
> I keep wondering if that was another PyWart? I believe (and hindsight
> is 20-20) that all the built-in modules

There's only one  __builtins__  module, which is implicitly loaded, and 
contains tons of things which are effectively global, such as open, 
float, filter, sorted, etc.

>   should have been protected by
> a top-level namespace. Something succicent, something like "py"...
>
> from py.archive import zipfile, tarfile
> from py.gui import Tkinter
> from py.markup import HTMLParser
>
> ...and voila, no more clashes with user defined modules!
>
Gee, you just described a package.  So why not say that the stdlib 
should have been done as a package of modules ?  I don't know if I agree 
or not, just trying to keep things level.
>>   Likewise any top-level
>> class, and any symbols imported with import or with from/import.  So I
>> consider it impractical for the language to do something that
>> self-discipline is required for.
> Also for scoping.
>
> py>  count =
> py>  def foo():
> ...     global.count +=
> py>  print count
> 1
>
> Why? Well because many times i find myself wondering if this or that
> variable is local or global -- and when i say "global" i am speaking
> of module scope! The "global<DOT>" cures the ill.
>
DaveA