Is there a shorter form of this?
if __name__ == '__main__':
It is pretty tedious to write, and also doesn’t look very nice in my opinion 🙂
Is there a shorter form of this? if __name__ == ‘__main__’: It is pretty
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Is there a shorter form of this?
if __name__ == '__main__':
It is pretty tedious to write, and also doesn’t look very nice in my opinion 🙂
PEP299 proposed a solution to this wart, namely having a special function name
__main__. It was rejected, partly because:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0299/
So the ugliness will stay, at least as long as Guido’s the BDFL.