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Python needs an actual default function (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

if debug.getinfo(1).what == "main" then
  -- ...
end

Not that you'll ever use it. No, seriously.

Edit: actually, they are not quite equivalent. This code just checks whether we are outside any function, not necessarily in the main file (i.e. not in a module). I don't think there's an equivalent to Python's __name__ in stock Lua.