[Python-ideas] Replacing the if __name__ == "__main__" idiom (was Re: making a module callable)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 25.11.2013 23:39, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2013, at 02:29 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
>> For all I care you can call it ismain().
> 
> Okay, I think I'm going to officially not care now.  :)   None of these suggestions seem worth
> the effort to indoctrinate folks to some new idiom, regardless of how it's spelled.

+1

As long as "if __name__ == '__main__': ..." doesn't stop working,
I don't care either :-)

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