Re: [Jython-dev] __main__ ?

[Robert W. B. <rb...@di...>]

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Romain Guy wrote:
>     Does Jython provides an equivalent of Python 2.1 __main__ ?

yes...

[sh:~/.] jython
Jython 2.1a1 on java1.3.1 (JIT: null)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print __name__
__main__
>>>

The top-level script environment isn't automatic when embedding...

// file: test.java
import java.util.Properties;
import org.python.core.*;
import org.python.util.*;

public class test {
    private static PythonInterpreter interp;


    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Properties props = new Properties();
        props.setProperty("python.home", "/home/rbill/jython-2.1a1");
        PythonInterpreter.initialize(System.getProperties(), props, new String[0]);
        interp = new PythonInterpreter();

        // explicitly add __main__
        PyModule mod = imp.addModule("__main__");
        interp.setLocals(mod.__dict__);
        interp.execfile(args[0]);
    }
}


cheers,
robert