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RE: Total newbie question: Best practice

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Collins Congratulations for your first step into Python Programming.
You can call them script or programs(not necessarily but depends on what your coding for).
Yaa..it's always a good practice to call it through main(), but it doesn't really matter you 
can call the method in way....  

Regards,
Shambhu

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Higwell [mailto:colinh@somewhere.invalid] 
Sent: 30/11/2011 1:37 AM
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Total newbie question: Best practice

Hi,

I am just starting to learn Python (I have been at it only a few hours), 
so please bear with me. I have a few very small scripts (do you call them 
scripts or programs?) which work properly, and produce the results 
intended.

However, they are monolithic in nature; i.e. they begin at the beginning 
and finish at the end. Having done a little reading, I note that it seems 
to be quite common to have a function main() at the start (which in turn 
calls other functions as appropriate), and then to call main() to do the 
work. 

Is that standard best practice?

Thanks

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Total newbie question: Best practice Colin Higwell <colinh@somewhere.invalid> - 2011-11-29 20:06 +0000
  Re: Total newbie question: Best practice Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2011-11-29 20:34 +0000
    Re: Total newbie question: Best practice Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-11-29 21:12 +0000
  Re: Total newbie question: Best practice Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 07:36 +1100
  Re: Total newbie question: Best practice Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2011-11-29 16:57 -0500
    Re: Total newbie question: Best practice Colin Higwell <colinh@somewhere.invalid> - 2011-11-29 23:08 +0000
  RE: Total newbie question: Best practice Shambhu Rajak <Shambhu.Rajak@kpitcummins.com> - 2011-11-30 08:50 +0000
  Re: Total newbie question: Best practice "Pedro Henrique G. Souto" <pedro.h.souto@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 09:36 -0200

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