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Ad 1, the current idiom uses dunder name, which is implicitly defined and looks special. Making main special would be about the same level of a solution, yet

Ad 1, the current idiom uses dunder name, which is implicitly defined and looks special. Making main special would be about the same level of a solution, yet more conventional

hansvm 6y ago
There's always `__main__.py` if you want something special.
toyg 6y ago
Dunder methods don’t “look” special, they are. Marking them as such has side-effects, and as soon as you see a dunder, you know you’re going “lower”. If “main” has to be a special function, it must keep the dunder.