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authorJack DeVries <jdevries3133@gmail.com>2021-11-13 20:16:05 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-11-13 20:16:05 (GMT)
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bpo-45799: [Doc] improve confusing sentence in __main__.rst (GH-29546)
I was reading this bit last night and thought it was a typo. In the light of day, I realized it wasn't *technically* a typo, but definitely confusing wording. This PR fixes the confusing sentence. Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:ericvsmith
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diff --git a/Doc/library/__main__.rst b/Doc/library/__main__.rst
index d92266e..c5f36a7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/__main__.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/__main__.rst
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ Idiomatic Usage
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Some modules contain code that is intended for script use only, like parsing
-command-line arguments or fetching data from standard input. When a module
-like this were to be imported from a different module, for example to unit test
+command-line arguments or fetching data from standard input. If a module
+like this was imported from a different module, for example to unit test
it, the script code would unintentionally execute as well.
This is where using the ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` code block comes in