[Python-ideas] PEP for executing a module in a package containing relative imports (original) (raw)
Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Sun Apr 22 20:32:03 CEST 2007
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On 4/22/07, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote: > I think this PEP now needs to explicitly state that keeping the "am I > the main module?" idiom as simple as possible is not a goal. Because > everything I've seen (except for the original proposals in the PEP) > are substantially more complicated than the current:: > > if name == 'main': >
I'm proposing the following changes: * sys.main is added which contains the dotted name of the main script. This allows code like: if name == sys.main: ...
Note that this really requires the code::
import sys
if __name__ == sys.main:The import statement matters to me because 77% of my modules that use the main idiom don't import sys. Hence, for those modules, this new idiom introduces more boilerplate.
STeVe
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