Python module templates (was python calling python)

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	François Pinard [SMTP:pinard at iro.umontreal.ca]
> 
> [Alex Martelli]
> 
> > A fine touch might include:
> 
> > def main(args=sys.argv):
> >     # whatever
> 
> I tried many styles for this, and finally decided that the most useful
> idiom might be:
> 
>     def main(*arguments):
>        import getopt
>        options, arguments = getopt.getopt(...)
>        for option, value in options:
>            ...
>        # rest of programs with arguments...
> 
>     ...
> 
>     if __name__ == '__main__':
>         apply(main, sys.argv[1:])
> 
> so I use it almost identically in all my programs.  From another module,
> one could just use:
> 
>     module.main(OPTION, OPTION..., ARGUMENT, ARGUMENT...)
> 
> passing strings for each.
> 
Do you chaps have a module template? What does it have in it?

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk




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