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Re: Is there any advantage to using a main() in python scripts?

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Date 2013-12-11 21:41 +1100
Subject Re: Is there any advantage to using a main() in python scripts?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.3881.1386758510.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>         except SystemExit, exc:

For new code, you'd of course want to write that as:

except SystemExit as exc:

which is compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.x, while the other
syntax is 2.x only.

ChrisA

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Is there any advantage to using a main() in python scripts? JL <lightaiyee@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 01:55 -0800
  Re: Is there any advantage to using a main() in python scripts? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-12-11 21:26 +1100
  Re: Is there any advantage to using a main() in python scripts? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 21:41 +1100
  Re: Is there any advantage to using a main() in python scripts? marduk@letterboxes.org - 2013-12-11 07:57 -0500
    Re: Is there any advantage to using a main() in python scripts? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-11 09:20 -0500
  Re: Is there any advantage to using a main() in python scripts? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-11 09:17 -0500
    Re: Is there any advantage to using a main() in python scripts? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 06:24 -0800
  Re: Is there any advantage to using a main() in python scripts? bob gailer <bgailer@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 10:42 -0500
  Re: Is there any advantage to using a main() in python scripts? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 02:49 +1100
  Re: Is there any advantage to using a main() in python scripts? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-12-11 16:22 -0500

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