Also, do y’all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?

  • mmddmm@lemm.ee
    07·
    2 days ago

    It’s a scripting language. What means that the computer runs it line by line, without needing to get the entire project first.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      13·
      2 days ago

      That is not how Python works. There are very few languages that work by executing line-by-line anymore. Unix shell scripts are one of the few holdouts. JavaScript also does it to a certain extent; the browser starts executing line-by-line while a compiler step works in the background. Once the compiler is done, it starts execution of the compiled form right where the line-by-line execution left off. It helps JavaScript be more responsive since it doesn’t have to wait for the compiler to finish.

      • fruitcantfly@programming.dev
        2·
        2 days ago

        Unix shell scripts are one of the few holdouts.

        I don’t know if this applies to other shells, but bash will not only execute your script line-by-line, it will also read it line-by-line. Which means that you can modify the behavior of a running script by editing lines that have not yet been executed*. It’s absolutely bonkers, and I’m sure that it has caused more than one system failure, during upgrades.

        * For example, if you run the following script

        echo "hello"
sleep 5
echo "goodbye"

        and then edit the third line before the 5 second sleep has elapsed, then the modified line will be executed.

      • mmddmm@lemm.ee
        16·
        2 days ago

        Python still has the -i option, and it still runs the same language as the files interface.