A brief word on __main__

Okay, __main__ is technically a Python module. Technically, it’s the scope of the program that’s currently being executed.

I wanted to find something interesting about __main__, I really did. But there’s nothing out there. All you really need this for is this:

if __name__ == "__main__":
	main()

That little snippet will execute a main() function if your program is currently being executed (i.e., not a module of another program). And that’s it. It’s good to know it’s there, and now that we know, we can move on.