Programmer Humor

wait till you see

if __name__ = "__main__":

   main()
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One thing I really dislike about Python is the double underscore thing, just really looks ugly to me and feels excessive. Just give me my flow control characters that aren't whitespace

What kind of psychopath would put the code in the if block.

Sometimes I have the misfortune of working with python code written by someone else and I wonder how a language like this became anything more than a scripting language

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.)

Still better than having to create a new class just to implement

public static void main(String[] args) {}

Relevant Fireship video: https://youtu.be/m4-HM_sCvtQ

I call main() in the if

It really doesn't. It's a scripting language, functions are there but at it's core it runs a script. The issue is that it was so easy to start with that people started doing everything in it, even though it sucks for anything past complex scripts

It is the excel of databases.

I've always found needing to manually add a class instance parameter (i.e. self) to every object method really weird. And the constructors being named __init__. Not having multiple dispatch is kinda annoying too. Needing to use decorators for class methods, static methods, and abstract classes is also annoying. Now that I think about it, Python kinda sucks (even though it's the language I use the most, lol).

Python people explaining fail to see the point: Yes we know dunders exist. We just want you to say: "Yeah, that is a bit hacky, isn't it?"

The if block is where my arg parser goes

The if block is still in the global scope, so writing the code in it is a great way to find yourself scratching your head with a weird bug 30 minutes later.

Did you know that main is usually a function?

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 and context. So I would do something like this:

def handler(event, context):
    things
    return {
        'statusCode': 200,
        'body': 'Hello from Lambda!'
    }

if __name__ == '__main__':
    event = {}
    context = {}
    response = handler(event, context)
    print(response)