[Web-SIG] A more useful command-line wsgiref.simple_server?

[PJ Eby]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Graham Dumpleton <
graham.dumpleton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 31 March 2012 14:36, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > Why give them a __name__ at all?  Aren't they scripts, rather than
> modules?
> >  ISTM that not having a __name__ would also let things like pickles fail
> > faster.  That is, code that expected a module rather than a script would
> > break right away.
>
> Because not having a __name__ attribute at all would make:
>
>  if __name__ == '__main__':
>     ...
>
> fail straight away and people quite often had that in scripts so they
> could run it directly as well with a pure WSGI server.
>

Well, they could always replace it with "if globals().get('__name__',
'__main__')== '__main__':", I suppose.  ;-)


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