Short Answer It’s boilerplate code that protects users from accidentally invoking the script when they didn’t intend to. Here are some common problems when the guard is omitted from a script: If you import the guardless script in another script (e.g. import my_script_without_a_name_eq_main_guard), then the latter script will trigger the former to run at import … Read more
According to the docs, a module is a file containing Python definitions and statements. The file name is the module name with the suffix .py appended. You can import modules by simply using import moduleNameHere. Your problem could be that you want to create a package, not a module. Again, according to the docs, packages … Read more
The package you’re looking for has an empty description on PyPI and installs nothing when you install it. If you click on the Homepage link, it’s a GitHub repo containing nothing but a README file saying: I really don’t have time to maintain this library further. If you want to fork it or use it … Read more
Introduction If __name__ == “__main__”: is a special statement in Python that is used to execute some code only if the file is run directly. This statement is used to check whether the current file is being imported from another module or not. If the file is being imported from another module, the code inside … Read more
Short Answer It’s boilerplate code that protects users from accidentally invoking the script when they didn’t intend to. Here are some common problems when the guard is omitted from a script: If you import the guardless script in another script (e.g. import my_script_without_a_name_eq_main_guard), then the latter script will trigger the former to run at import … Read more