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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2021-08-24 20:54:08 (GMT)
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bpo-39452: Rewrite and expand __main__.rst (GH-26883)
Broadened scope of the document to explicitly discuss and differentiate between ``__main__.py`` in packages versus the ``__name__ == '__main__'`` expression (and the idioms that surround it), as well as ``import __main__``. Co-authored-by: Géry Ogam <gery.ogam@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl> (cherry picked from commit 7cba23164cf82f6619db002cd30021b5dfb1f809) Co-authored-by: Jack DeVries <58614260+jdevries3133@users.noreply.github.com>
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+Rewrote ``Doc/library/__main__.rst``. Broadened scope of the document to
+explicitly discuss and differentiate between ``__main__.py`` in packages
+versus the ``__name__ == '__main__'`` expression (and the idioms that
+surround it).