| Georg Brandl | 116aa62 | 2007-08-15 14:28:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | |
| 2 | :mod:`__main__` --- Top-level script environment |
| 3 | ================================================ |
| 4 | |
| 5 | .. module:: __main__ |
| 6 | :synopsis: The environment where the top-level script is run. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | |
| 9 | This module represents the (otherwise anonymous) scope in which the |
| 10 | interpreter's main program executes --- commands read either from standard |
| 11 | input, from a script file, or from an interactive prompt. It is this |
| 12 | environment in which the idiomatic "conditional script" stanza causes a script |
| 13 | to run:: |
| 14 | |
| 15 | if __name__ == "__main__": |
| 16 | main() |
| 17 | |