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if __name__ == “__main__”

Explore how the if __name__ == __main__ conditional statement controls Python script execution. Understand its role in running code only when a file is executed directly, and how it helps in testing and importing modules without running unwanted code.

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You will see a very common conditional statement used in many Python examples. This is what it looks like:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # do something!

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