"Jan Kaliszewski" <z...@chopin.edu.pl> writes: > I understand you name global scope as 'main'. But (independently of > using the __main__ idiom and so on) it is still good idea not to place > to much code in the global scope but to place your app-logic code in > functions -- because, as we noted: > > * in practice it is considerably faster, > > * it helps you with using functions & class browsers.
* having a module that can be imported without side effects helps select pieces of the module's functionality * any module should be importable without side effects to make it easier to run unit tests for that module -- \ “The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more | `\ expected.” —Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Ed., 1972-06-12 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
