[Python-Dev] User's complaints (original) (raw)

Aaron Bingham bingham at cenix-bioscience.com
Thu Jul 13 10:07:44 CEST 2006

Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Wolfgang Langner wrote:

On 7/13/06, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <ashemedai at gmail.com> wrote:

Things that struck me as peculiar is the old: if name == "main": whatever() This is so out of tune with the rest of python it becomes a nuisance.

It is not beautiful but very useful. In Python 3000 we can replace it with: @main def whatever(): ... to mark this function as main function if module executed directly. Why not simply: def main(): ... or even pass in the command-line arguments: def main(*args): ... Having to 'import sys' to get at the command-line arguments always seemed awkward to me. 'import sys' feels like it should be a privileged operation (access to interpreter internals), and getting the command-line args isn't privileged. +1, seems a lot more elegant than "if name == 'main'"

Regards,

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Aaron Bingham Senior Software Engineer Cenix BioScience GmbH

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