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It’s only weird syntactically. Python tends to lean towards intuitive, natural language by default. I would have assumed they’d have created a syntactically straightforward alternative, like: __this_file__ == “__launch_file__” or similar. I understand python values “only one way” of doing things, but it would be helpful for readability.
No, the “readable” shortcut would have been if __main__: There are no magic strings to remember and the IDE can help you look up variables.
Again, this is a CS/Math major kind of thinking. The term __main__ means nothing syntactically. If we care about language acquisition -- thus language adoption -- it is always better to make "very common terms" in the language understandable to someone who is completely illiterate to your formal language.
I honestly think one of the main reasons why python is so successful is as simple as:
print "Hello world!"
print("Hello world!")
echo "Hello world!";
console.log("Hello world!");
public class GFG{
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello world!");
}
}