[Python-Dev] PEP 328 and PEP 338, redux (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jun 28 02:23:03 CEST 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:

Bad idea IMO. The name == "main" rule is so ingrained, you don't want to mess with it.

It would only make a difference for main modules inside packages. Wouldn't that be fairly rare? The vast majority of existing name == "main" uses ought to be unaffected.

-- Greg



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