2009/9/4 Manuel Graune <manuel.gra...@koeln.de>: > How come the main()-idiom is not "the standard way" of writing a > python-program (like e.g. in C)?
Speaking for myself, it *is* the standard way to structure a script. I find it more readable, since I can put my main function at the very top where it's visible, with the classes and functions it makes use of following in some logical sequence. I suspect that this is the case for many real-world scripts. Perhaps it's mainly in books and demos where the extra stuff is left out so the reader can focus on what the writer is demonstrating? > And in addition: Can someone please explain why the first version > is so much slower? Access to globals is slower than access to a function's locals. -- Cheers, Simon B. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
