Re: Dual personality: Module and script

It sounds like you're trying to be too clever. Modules are generally meant to be sourced in from other entities, like scripts. I wouldn't have executable modules, personally.

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Re^2: Dual personality: Module and script by japhy (Canon) on Aug 03, 2004 at 16:18 UTC
In the Python world, the sentiment is exactly the opposite. I remember reading in "Programming Python" this common idiom: `#!/usr/bin/env python # module mymod2.py def cube(n): return n 3 # when 'import'ed, __name__ is 'mymod2' # when executed, __name__ is '__main__' if __name__ == '__main__': if cube(15) != 3375: print "Error, cube(15) is not correct"` [download] _____________________________________________________ Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart**	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Dual personality: Module and script
by japhy (Canon) on Aug 03, 2004 at 16:18 UTC

Python

#!/usr/bin/env python
# module mymod2.py

def cube(n):
   return n ** 3

# when 'import'ed, __name__ is 'mymod2'
# when executed, __name__ is '__main__'
if __name__ == '__main__':
   if cube(15) != 3375:
      print "Error, cube(15) is not correct"
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