From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:31:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: A little more text, and some really minor cleanups.
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~396
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dd611b0070667d13b0e5e0b2805c030eb8d48d20;p=python

A little more text, and some really minor cleanups.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libmain.tex b/Doc/lib/libmain.tex
index 949d2b222a..00c7426fba 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libmain.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libmain.tex
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
 \section{\module{__main__} ---
-         Top-level script environment.}
-\declaremodule[main]{builtin}{__main__}
+         Top-level script environment}
 
+\declaremodule[main]{builtin}{__main__}
 \modulesynopsis{The environment where the top-level script is run.}
 
 This module represents the (otherwise anonymous) scope in which the
 interpreter's main program executes --- commands read either from
-standard input or from a script file.
+standard input, from a script file, or from an interactive prompt.  It
+is this environment in which the idiomatic ``conditional script''
+stanza causes a script to run:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
+\end{verbatim}