How about some syntactic sugar for " __name__ == '__main__' "?

[Ethan Furman]

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On 11/13/2014 12:33 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>> On 11/12/2014 01:51 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Chris Kaynor wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> A decorator is an interesting idea, and should be easy to implement (only lightly tested):
>>>> 
>>>> def main(func): if func.__module__ == "__main__": func() return func # The return could be omitted to block
>>>> the function from being manually called after import.
>>> 
>>> This calls it at the wrong time, though.  [...]
>> 
>> One decorator that won't call too early is atexit.register().
> 
> Nice. That feels like an abuse, though. The actual program won't be able to register its own atexit handlers,
> because the program will already be exiting, and other things decorated with atexit.register might actually be
> called before the main function.

It's definitely a niche use-case -- such as a cli-helper lib:  import said lib, and when it's decorators are used set
the atexit handler to call the lib's __main__ function, which checks that the module name of the decorated function is
'__main__', and if it is, run stuff!

Hmmm... hopefully that wasn't difficult to explain.  ;)

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~Ethan~
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