Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js

Re:Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js by hota_mazi on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:50AM (#14157143)

How is

    if __name__ == "__main__":
        main()

different from a main()?

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Re:Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js by cookiecaper on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:52PM (#14159068)

It's only needed if you're importing the file as a library/module somewhere.

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Re:Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js by squeaky-clean on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:29PM (#14158177)

You don't even need that.

  print("hello world")

will run just fine

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Re:Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js by coldtea on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:24AM (#14164854)

It's different in that it's optional in Python.

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