On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:02 PM, John Ladasky <john_lada...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I have taught Python to several students over the past few years. As I have > worked with my students, I find myself bothered by the programming idiom that > we use to determine whether a module is being executed or merely imported: > > "if __name__ == '__main__':" > > The use of two dunder tokens -- one as a name in a namespace, and the other > as a string, is intimidating. It exposes too much of Python's guts. As > such, I think that it is less Pythonic than we might want. Myself, I've been > programming in Python for a decade, and I still haven't dug very deeply into > what exactly __name__ means or does. > > I would like to start a discussion about whether Python should include a > function which executes this evaluation, and hides all of the unfriendly > dunderish details. And if that's a good idea, I would invite a discussion of > how, exactly, it should be implemented. I'm nowhere near proposing a PEP, > but that may come later. > > Thanks for your thoughts. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
How about a decorator? -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
