Brett Cannon added the comment: Maybe we just need to clarify some documentation at this point? All of the differences in semantics make total sense when you realize `-m pkg` is really conceptually shorthand for `import pkg.__main__` (w/ the appropriate __name__ flourishes). When you begin to view it that way then specifying the file path starts to look like the odd way by bypassing import and simply running open() on a file and passing the result to exec() (once again, with the appropriate __name__ flourishes). It also makes the point that -m isn't really shorthand for specifying a script which seems to be where people are getting tripped up by the differences.
So instead of selling `-m` as a way to run a module/package as a script, I say we change the message/documentation to say it does an import with __name__ changed and make specifying a script as the weird reading-a-file-directly thing. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16737> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
