Hi Lie,
On Feb 3, 7:21 pm, Lie <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 3, 1:37 pm, Ray <rayky...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'll enclose the top-level commands with the if statement above...its > > just a minor change, but it seems unavoidable. > > > Thanks again! > > > Ray > > If you really don't want the file to be changed, you could (depends on > the module) use the module as a subprocess. The ideal solution is for > the module to have an if __name__ == '__main__': to determine whether > it is being used as a module or a standalone program though. Thank you for this! I've done the "if __name__ ..." as you and others suggested. It isn't what I would have liked, but I'm ok with it...especially after finding out that top-level code has to be run while importing. As I'm new to python, I didn't know about that, but I now see there's no way around it. So, is inserting the above if statement common practice for python programmers? As a C programmer, it seems that people put a "#ifndef XXX...#define XXX...[all of the code]...#endif" almost as a habit. I wonder if its the same thing? Thank you! Ray -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
