Re: How about some syntactic sugar for " name == 'main' "?

Date	2014-12-02 02:17 -0800
From	Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
Subject	Re: How about some syntactic sugar for " __name__ == '__main__' "?
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On 12/01/2014 05:15 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Ethan Furman 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. 

Ah, thanks for that!

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~Ethan~

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