In Python, can I call the main() of an imported module?

Question

In Python I have a module myModule.py where I define a few functions and a main(), which takes a few command line arguments.

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Answer 1

It depends. If the main code is protected by an if as in:

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ...main code...

then no, you can't make Python execute that because you can't influence the automatic variable __name__.

But when all the code is in a function, then might be able to. Try

import myModule

myModule.main()

This works even when the module protects itself with a __all__.

from myModule import * might not make main visible to you, so you really need to import the module itself.