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rbanffy on March 12, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Python cheat sheet for those of us who do

Isn't using a "main" function a C-ism? I have never heard of such a convention when programming in Python.

Is there one? Does the BDFL know about it?

hhm on March 12, 2008 [–]

No, it's actually used. In this article the creator of Python talks about it: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4829

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