It's boilerplate code that protects users from accidentally invoking the script when they didn't intend to. Here are some common problems when the guard is omitted from a script: If you import the ...

This project hosts a python template for a main program. It consists of the following: main.py: A main skeleton with logging and arguments parse. logger.py: A simple wrapper for the logging python ...

While this is not syntactically incorrect, it’s not really the Python way either. So if we wish to distinguish portions of our code which are automatically run when executed (sometimes called driver ...