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William Ray Noble
22,190 PointsWhat is "If__name__ =__main__"?
What is "If_name_ =main" doing? I've never seen this line of code before.
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Steven Parker
231,007 PointsThis test is only true inside the code module that was started by the user. For code in modules that were loaded by imports, the special variable "__name__" will have the name of the module the code was imported from.