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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 12:15:22 +1100
Subject: Re: How about some syntactic sugar for " __name__ == '__main__' "?
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Put the above somewhere in your path (e.g. /usr/local/bin), make it executable, and then instead of shebanging your
> scripts with `/usr/local/bin/python` you can use `/usr/local/bin/py_main`, which will load and execute the script,
> calling script.main as its last act.

Be aware that this trick (shebanging to a script rather than a binary)
isn't specified by the POSIX standard. It works on Linux, but I don't
know about other systems. It's a great trick, though. I once had
shebangs chained something like three or four levels deep.

ChrisA