[Python-3000] PEP to change how the main module is delineated (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Apr 24 00:08:03 CEST 2007

On 4/23/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On 4/22/07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: > This PEP is to change the if _name_ == "_main_": ... idiom to > if _name_ == sys.main: ... so that you at least have a chance > to execute module in a package that use relative imports. > > Ran this PEP past python-ideas. Stopped the discussion there when too > many new ideas were being proposed. =) I have listed all of them in > the Rejected Ideas section, although if overwhelming support for one > comes forward the PEP can shift to one of them.

I'm -1 on this and on any other proposed twiddlings of the main machinery. The only use case seems to be running scripts that happen to be living inside a module's directory, which I've always seen as an antipattern. To make me change my mind you'd have to convince me that it isn't.

With Guido not liking it and people not agreeing on a solution with me not feeling like fighting for this one I consider the PEP rejected. When I get my laptop back (end of the week hopefully) I will check the PEP in as rejected so that we don't have to go through this again.

Thanks to everyone to contributed to the conversation.

-Brett

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