Also, I routinely write scripts that have no `if __name__ ==
'__main__'` line at all, they just run - no-one should ever import
them, so it makes no difference. And I exit (in multiple places) using
`raise SystemExit("reason")`.My point being that yes, there are *lots* of ways of writing Python scripts/programs. Why "bless" one of them as being somehow superior? Paul On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 02:02, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > On 29/05/20 8:05 am, tritium-l...@sdamon.com wrote: > > > People write main entry points that are not exactly this? > > > > If __name__ == '__main__': > > sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:])) > > It's not clear that exiting with the return value of main() is > the most Pythonic thing to do -- it's more of a C idiom that > doesn't seem so useful when exceptions exist. > > -- > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/UEFQEB3YZIB45KWAHPBWSZLFDBSA672Y/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/JMRF6PUCOMMLAAYWZKZR2E22EM4YIUS4/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
