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

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info>:

> if __name__ == '__main__' or condition():
>     print "still executing"
>     main()
>
> print "done loading"
>
> (I haven't ever done *all* of these things in a *single* file, but I
> have done all these things at one time or another.)
>
> There's no way that any automatic system can match that for
> flexibility or simplicity.

Our test system has this boilerplate at the end of each test case:

   if __name__ == '__main__':
       run(test)

Nobody claims it's beautiful but nobody has been overly bothered by it,
either.


Marko