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

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 03:24:43 CEST 2007

On 4/22/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Steven Bethard wrote: > if there's nothing to be passed to the function, why make it a > function at all?

I don't usually like to put big lumps of init code at the module level, because it pollutes the module namespace with local variables. So I typically end up with def main(): ... ... ... if name == "main": main() So I'd be quite happy if I could just define a function called main() and be done with. I don't understand why there's so much opposition to that idea.

I guess I'm just the odd one out here in that I parse my arguments before passing them to module-level functions. So my code normally looks like::

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ... a few lines of argument parsing code ...
    some_function_name(args.foo, args.bar, args.baz)

That is, I do the argument parsing at the module level, and then call the module functions with more meaningful arguments than sys.argv.

STeVe

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