[Tutor] How does this work?

[Daniel Yoo]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Daniel Yoo wrote:

>> this is the callee which is saved in tester.py
>> ##############################
>> import sys
>>
>> def main(arg):
>>   if arg != []:
>>      print"\nArgument is %s" % arg
>>
>> if __name__ == "__main__"":
>>   main(sys.argv)
>> ##############################
>
> This is not safe.  I would strongly recommend not to do this.  There is a
> much simpler way for the caller to be written:
>
> ############################
> import tester
> tester.main([], "argument")
> ############################
>
> Done.  No tricks, no eval() or exec() necessary.

... and also not right.  *sigh*


Sorry, I meant to write:

#########################
import tester
tester.main(["argument"])
#########################


My apologies!