The Python approach to "main" is almost unique to the language (*). The semantics are a bit subtle. The __name__ identifier is bound to the name of any module as it's being imported. …

Jan 7, 2009 · If you are trying to close a question where someone should be using this idiom and isn't, consider closing as a duplicate of Why is Python running my module when I import it, and …

Oct 28, 2010 · Why does python not support a professional main () function which is automatically executed by python code.py?

Oct 28, 2010 · Often, a Python program is run by naming a .py file on the command line: $ python my_program.py You can also create a directory or zipfile full of code, and include a …

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 …

To get only the command line arguments (not including the name of the Python file) import sys sys.argv[1:] The [1:] is a slice starting from the second element (index 1) and going to the end …

Jun 8, 2018 · Still it uses ensure_future, and for learning purposes about asynchronous programming in Python, I would like to see an even more minimal example, and what are the …

Sep 30, 2022 · I want to run FastAPI server using Uvicorn from A different Python file. uvicornmodule/main.py import uvicorn import webbrowser from fastapi import FastAPI from …

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 …

For example you can have the main function directly at the beginning of the file, while additional functions that are called within it are defined further into the file. And the very last part of the …