Also, do y’all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?

  • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
    31·
    1 month ago

    I still wonder why.

    unless it’s for something that you want to work as an importable module and a standalone tool, then why do you need that?

    • Archr@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      The main two reasons that I can think of to include this even when you have no intention of importing this as a library are:

      1. For unit testing you will need to import as a module.
      2. Sometimes I will run a python interactive interpreter and then import my script so that I can do some manual testing without needing to change my main function or if stmt.
    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      1·
      1 month ago

      Oh that is a good point actually. It’s been a while since I have done any serious Python, so I’m not sure why you couldn’t just use convention instead of this conditional.

      For my part, if a Python script is meant to be executed, then I’ll give it a shebang, drop the .py, and simply mark it as executable in the filesystem. 🤷‍♂️