On 9/22/2020 8:31 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:24 AM Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:14:01 +0400, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
<arj.pyt...@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
I have this main script:
https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ/shopyo/blob/dev/shopyo/__main__.py
Well, that file name scares me...
__main__ is the name Python uses internally for the, well, main program
(whatever the real file name is), and becomes part of the convention
if __name__ == "__main__":
#running as stand-alone program
#do stuff
where imported files will appear with the name by which they were imported.
In a package, __main__.py does that same job.
I am not sure of your intended meaning.
Assume that director 'mypac' is in a directory on sys.path. Forget
namespace packages, which I have not studied.
'import mypac' within code imports mypac/__init__.py
'python -m mypac' on a command line runs mypac/__main__.py
Example: .../pythonxy/lib/idlelib. lib is on sys.path.
idlelib/__init__.py is nearly empty.
idlelib/__main__.py starts IDLE,
so 'python -m idlelib' on a command line starts idle.
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