[Python-ideas] PEP for executing a module in a package containing relative imports (original) (raw)

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Sun Apr 22 21:26:43 CEST 2007


On 4/22/07, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/22/07, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

> 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:

As long as we're in python-ideas, I'll throw out the radical suggestion of auto-importing sys into builtins, the way os autoimports path.

-jJ



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