Jan 7, 2009 · If you are trying to close a question where someone should be using this idiom and isn't, consider closing as a duplicate of Why is Python running my module when I import it, and …

The Python approach to "main" is almost unique to the language (*). The semantics are a bit subtle. The __name__ identifier is bound to the name of any module as it's being imported. …

Oct 28, 2010 · Why does python not support a professional main () function which is automatically executed by python code.py?

Oct 28, 2010 · Often, a Python program is run by naming a .py file on the command line: $ python my_program.py You can also create a directory or zipfile full of code, and include a …

To get only the command line arguments (not including the name of the Python file) import sys sys.argv[1:] The [1:] is a slice starting from the second element (index 1) and going to the end …

Jun 8, 2018 · Still it uses ensure_future, and for learning purposes about asynchronous programming in Python, I would like to see an even more minimal example, and what are the …

A function is created from the code for main, and then the name main is bound to that function There is nothing to call the functions, so they aren't called. Since they aren't called, the code …

I will choose another alternative which is to exclude the if __name__ == '__main__' from the coverage report , of course you can do that only if you already have a test case for your main …

Mar 13, 2017 · I'm not sure how to construct my input arguments within my module and pass them to the main () function within my module. I've have written my my main () function and …

Feb 8, 2016 · Since I'm rather new to python this particular aspect of language still opaque for me. So, assume that my project contains many files with code that does stuff and two "service" …