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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Also, do y'all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

Never heard of

def main():
    pass

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What is the point of this?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not having tons of code in one if statement, but in a function.

[–] IronKrill 12 points 1 week ago

And scope. Variables declared in the if can be read everywhere, variables declared in the function are limited to that function.

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