[Python-Dev] "if __name__ == '__main__'" at the bottom of python unittest files

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Tue Apr 30 18:41:45 EDT 2019


They were never needed 😁

Removal is fine with me.

On Wed, 1 May 2019, 09:27 Chris Withers, <chris at withers.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a crazy idea of getting unittest.mock up to 100% code coverage.
>
> I noticed at the bottom of all of the test files in testmock/, there's a:
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>      unittest.main()
>
> ...block.
>
> How would people feel about these going away? I don't *think* they're
> needed now that we have unittest discover, but thought I'd ask.
>
> Chris
>
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