From fe0e1082aa3e6b25990564652b052f0dcdad7445 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: R David Murray Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:53:51 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] #15104: add backtick code markup. --- Doc/library/__main__.rst | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/__main__.rst b/Doc/library/__main__.rst index 2415d3d4247..fcbe53d912b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/__main__.rst +++ b/Doc/library/__main__.rst @@ -5,19 +5,19 @@ .. module:: __main__ :synopsis: The environment where the top-level script is run. -'__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 +``'__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. A module can discover whether or not it is running in the main scope by -checking its own __name__, which allows a common idiom for conditionally -executing code in a module when it is run as a script or with `python --m` but not when it is imported: +checking its own ``__name__``, which allows a common idiom for conditionally +executing code in a module when it is run as a script or with ``python +-m`` but not when it is imported: if __name__ == "__main__": # execute only if run as a script main() For a package, the same effect can be achieved by including a -__main__.py module, the contents of which will be executed when the -module is run with -m. +``__main__.py`` module, the contents of which will be executed when the +module is run with ``-m``.