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<span id="main-top-level-script-environment"></span><h1>29.4. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-__main__" title="__main__: The environment where the top-level script is run."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">__main__</span></tt></a> — Top-level script environment<a class="headerlink" href="#module-__main__" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'__main__'</span></tt> is the name of the scope in which top-level code executes.
A module’s __name__ is set equal to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'__main__'</span></tt> when read from
standard input, a script, or from an interactive prompt.</p>
<p>A module can discover whether or not it is running in the main scope by
checking its own <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">__name__</span></tt>, which allows a common idiom for conditionally
executing code in a module when it is run as a script or with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python</span>
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<div class="highlight-python3"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">__name__</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s">"__main__"</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="c"># execute only if run as a script</span>
<span class="n">main</span><span class="p">()</span>
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