On 02/04/2014 08:18, spir wrote:
On 04/01/2014 06:24 PM, Zachary Ware wrote:
Hi Patti,
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Patti Scott <pscott...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I've been cheating: comment out the conditional statement and adjust
the
indents. But, how do I make my program run with if __name__ == 'main':
main() at the end? I thought I understood the idea to run a module
called
directly but not a module imported. My program isn't running, though.
The simple fix to get you going is to change your ``if __name__ ==
'main':`` statement to ``if __name__ == '__main__':`` (add two
underscores on each side of "main"). To debug this for yourself, try
putting ``print(__name__)`` right before your ``if __name__ ...``
line, and see what is printed when you run it in different ways.
Hope this helps, and if you need any more help or a more in-depth
explanation of what's going on, please don't hesitate to ask :)
And you don't even need this idiom if your module is only to be executed
(not imported). Just write "main()".
A counter to the above comment
http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/04/03/dont-write-python-scripts-write-python-libraries/
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