I am new to Python, but I have experience in other OOP languages. My course does not explain the main method in python. Please tell me how main method works in python ? I am confused because I …

Jan 7, 2009 · You should see that, where __name__, where it is the main file (or program) will always return __main__, and if it is a module/package, or anything that is running off some other Python …

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 inside them isn't …

import main def func(): print main.var This will let you use the variable from the other module, and allow you to change it if desired.

Oct 28, 2010 · main(sys.argv) This means you can call main() from other scripts (or interactive shell) passing custom parameters. This might be useful in unit tests, or when batch-processing. But …

python myscript.py myfunction This works because you are passing the command line argument (a string of the function's name) into locals, a dictionary with a current local symbol table. The …

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 () function in your …

Everything in Python is a statement, there's no such thing as a declaration (for example, a def is a statement creating a function object and binding it to a name).

python main.py --product_id 1001028 To access the argument product_id, we need to declare it first and then get it:

38 I haven't done much python - coming from a C/Java background - so excuse me for asking such a simple question. I am using Pydev in Eclipse to write this simple program, and all I want it to do is to …