[issue4671] pydoc executes the code to be documented

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

That's why you shouldn't put code with side effects at the root of a
module, but inside a "if __name__ == '__main__'" guard.

Anyway, it may be worth documenting it!

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assignee:  -> georg.brandl
components: +Documentation
nosy: +georg.brandl, pitrou
versions: +Python 2.6 -Python 2.4

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