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Also, do y'all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I would put my code in a def main(), so that the local names don't escape into the module scope:

if __name__ == '__main__':
    def main():
        print('/s')
    main()

(I didn't see this one yet here.)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'm a little new to Python standards. Is this better or worse than putting the def main(): outside the if statement (but calling main() inside it)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I intended this an sarcastic example; I think it's worse than putting the main outside of the branch because of the extra indent-level. It does have an upside that the main() doesn't exist if you try import this as an module.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I thought confusion about indent levels was the whole point of using python

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

But it feels like main function should not be indented

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