1 2 :mod:`__main__` --- Top-level script environment 3 ================================================ 4 5 .. module:: __main__ 6 :synopsis: The environment where the top-level script is run. 7 8 9 This module represents the (otherwise anonymous) scope in which the 10 interpreter's main program executes --- commands read either from standard 11 input, from a script file, or from an interactive prompt. It is this 12 environment in which the idiomatic "conditional script" stanza causes a script 13 to run:: 14 15 if __name__ == "__main__": 16 main() 17 18
