What is the point of the if __name__ == "__main__":, i.e. why use a file as both script and module?

• yt-dlp-helpers

  1 0 3.6 Python

  Some helper scripts to help organize media files downloaded with yt-dlp, youtube-dl, etc.

Scripts are posted here. There are a handful of scripts in that repository, but videochaptermaker.py and chaptersFromYTdescription.py are the only ones relevant to this discussion.

• hebigo

  21 21 1.9 Python

  蛇語(HEH-bee-go): An indentation-based skin for Hissp.

The Lissp transpiler incrementally compiles and executes each top-level form to Python. It needs to do this in case there's a macro definition that might affect the compilation of a subsequent form. If it's only executing definitions, this is harmless, but if you want to precompile the main module, it needs the guard, or the side effects will happen too.

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