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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:26:50 +1100
Subject: Re: How about some syntactic sugar for " __name__ == '__main__' "?
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> Functions have an implicit 'return None' at the end (which, in CPython,
> become an explicit pair of bytecodes, even when the function already ends
> with return something'.  The simplest proposal is that modules have an
> implicit "if __name__ == '__main__': main()" at the end.  I think this would
> not have to be added to the bytecode.
>
> This magical invocation mimics C and some other languages, and I think it
> works well.

Yes, but it conflicts with the existing and common usage of having
that explicitly in the code. Safer - and more in line with the way
other such functions are written - would be a dunder function:

if __name__ == '__main__': __main__()

ChrisA