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I use if__name__main__ often when working with AWS Lambda, but I also want to run it locally. Lambda wants to call a function with the params
event
andcontext
. So I would do something like this:Diabolical
isn't that just normal usage? ..or, did I just whoosh and you were sarcastically saying that?
It is normal usage. Though personally I'd probably make another "main" function, to avoid declaring a bunch of global variables
Yeah. I like using
main()
that way too. It's usually just a high-level function that handles globals relevant to running in standalone and calling other functions to do work.indeed.