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authorTerry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>2016-06-11 19:06:08 (GMT)
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.. module:: __main__
:synopsis: The environment where the top-level script is run.
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``'__main__'`` is the name of the scope in which top-level code executes.
A module's __name__ is set equal to ``'__main__'`` when read from
standard input, a script, or from an interactive prompt.