Collins Congratulations for your first step into Python Programming. You can call them script or programs(not necessarily but depends on what your coding for). Yaa..it's always a good practice to call it through main(), but it doesn't really matter you can call the method in way....
Regards, Shambhu -----Original Message----- From: Colin Higwell [mailto:colinh@somewhere.invalid] Sent: 30/11/2011 1:37 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Total newbie question: Best practice Hi, I am just starting to learn Python (I have been at it only a few hours), so please bear with me. I have a few very small scripts (do you call them scripts or programs?) which work properly, and produce the results intended. However, they are monolithic in nature; i.e. they begin at the beginning and finish at the end. Having done a little reading, I note that it seems to be quite common to have a function main() at the start (which in turn calls other functions as appropriate), and then to call main() to do the work. Is that standard best practice? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
