[Python-Dev] What about PEP 299? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Mar 29 01:06:57 CEST 2006

OK. -1 on PEP 299 it is.

On 3/28/06, Charles Cazabon <python at discworld.dyndns.org> wrote:

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > On 3/28/06, Charles Cazabon <python at discworld.dyndns.org> wrote: > > It might be worth instead adding an option flag to the executable that implies > > "from the loaded module, run main() with sys.argv as its argument(s)", so > > the user can get this behaviour with python -X somemodule.py. > > You can do "python -m somemodule" as long as somemodule.py uses the if > name=='main' convention. What does your proposal add?

Well, it's not really my proposal. I'm just suggesting the behaviour in PEP299 could be added via a commandline option so that it doesn't introduce backward-incompatibility. I don't see any particular benefit to PEP299 myself -- I'd rather just add an entry to the style guide about standardizing the "executable stanza" and main() function. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <python at discworld.dyndns.org> GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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