On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 9:46 AM Matt Wozniski wrote:
> Currently, the simplest and most idiomatic way to check whether a module
> was
> run as a script rather than imported is:
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>
> People generally learn this by rote memorization, because users often want
> the
Excellent redirect of original proposal: +10
From: André Roberge
[snip]
As a goal of making it even more obvious what the (new) idiom mans, I would
suggest a variable named __imported__ with the opposite value to what is
proposed.
Thus,
if not __imported__:
would behave the same as the prop
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 06:33:52PM +, Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas wrote:
> I find this a curious argument. A bit like saying "Here are your new
> shoes; they weigh 10Kg but that's absolutely great because you'll
> develop stronger legs wearing them".
Do you honestly think that writing
I love the idea of __imported__ but would like to suggest taking it even
further - why not, rather that a bool for __imported__, have the value of it be
either None (if __name__ == "__main__") or the __name__ of the module that it
is being imported from. This could potentially be useful in tryin
