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vertical ordering of functions

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Hi,

I'm just reading Robert M. Martin's book entitled "Clean Code". In Ch.
5 he says that a function that is called should be below a function
that does the calling. This creates a nice flow down from top to
bottom.
However, when I write a Python script I do just the opposite. I start
with the lines

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Then I add main() above, which is a control function that contains
some function calls that decompose the problem into subproblems. Then
I add these functions above, etc.

Is there a convention for this? Should main() be at the top and called
function below?

Thanks,

Laszlo

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vertical ordering of functions Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@gmail.com> - 2011-05-03 18:08 -0400
  Re: vertical ordering of functions Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-04 09:58 +1000
    Re: vertical ordering of functions John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> - 2011-05-03 19:44 -0500
  Re: vertical ordering of functions Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-05-03 20:27 -0400
  Re: vertical ordering of functions Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-04 01:09 +0000
  Re: vertical ordering of functions John Roth <johnroth1@gmail.com> - 2011-05-04 04:14 -0700
  Re: vertical ordering of functions Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-05-10 19:31 +0100

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