On Jun 16, 2:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After a couple of weeks studying Python, I already have a few useful > scripts, including one that downloads 1500 Yahoo stock quotes in 6 > seconds. However, many things are puzzling to me. I keep on seeing > things like "__main__" in scripts. A more obscure example would be > "__add__" used in string concatenation. For example, I can use "Hello > "+"world (or just "Hello" "world") to join those two words. But I can > also use "Hello ".__add__("world"). When and why would I ever use > "__main__" or the many other "__whatever__" constructs?
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