[TriLUG] making a python module

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, bcpowell at email.unc.edu wrote:

> The python idiom for this is to condition your execution on the value
> of the __name__ variable. This is set to the module name if the file
> has been imported as a module, and has the special value "__main__" if
> the file is being run as a script by the python interpreter. So you can
> put your test code inside a 'if __name__ == "__main__":' block. For
> instance:

(BTW thanks for this. I didn't find a whole lot on this in 
google).

the python 2.5 documentation 
(docs.python.org/download.html), section 6.1 "More on 
Modules" says that global namespace code is executed on 
loading a module, to do any initialisation required for 
loading. I've initialised code on running (set vars to 0 
say) but never initialised any code on loading.

What might you want to initialise in a python module on 
loading (and not running)?

Thanks Joe

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