anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> added the comment:
Now I get it. That's much better. Thanks. =)
After rereading the description with this new info I spot that __main__ is
called a module, which is not true, because it is only a module name. It makes
sense to enclose it in quotes in title as well.
I'd reword this:
{{{
This module represents the (otherwise anonymous) scope in which the
interpreter’s main program executes — commands read either from standard input,
from a script file, or from an interactive prompt. It is this environment in
which the idiomatic “conditional script” stanza causes a script to run:
}}}
to this:
{{{
This __name__ value represents (otherwise anonymous) scope of the program’s
main module in the interpreter. __name__ becomes equal to '__main__' when
commands read either from standard input, from a script file, or from an
interactive prompt. For example, a common way to add code to module that will
only be executable when run as a script is to place it into the following if
block:
}}}
Not academic, but practical.
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