satya - 3/15/2024, 10:56:19 AM

Consider this first

project/
�
+-- mypackage/
�   +-- __init__.py
�   +-- mymodule.py
�
+-- myscript.py

satya - 3/15/2024, 11:00:07 AM

Observations

satya - 3/15/2024, 11:59:08 AM

Few ways of running these

# Running a script with full path
python /somepath/project/myscript.py

# Running a script as a module.
# Notice no .py in the end nor the path
python -m mypackage.module

# Using only the package
# In this case there has to be a file called __main__.py
python -m mypackage

satya - 3/15/2024, 12:01:09 PM

In all cases the __name__ value in the script that it runs

# the __name__ is set to __main__ in that script or module

# So the following code segment is useful

if __name__ == '__main__':
    localTest()

satya - 3/15/2024, 12:01:49 PM

The -m module option