The Python Apprentice

The __name__  type and executing modules from the command line

The Python runtime system defines some special variables and attributes, the names of which are delimited by double underscores. One such special variable is called __name__, and it gives us the means for our module to determine whether it has been run as a script or, instead, imported into another module or the REPL. To see how, add:

print(__name__)

Add the end of your module, outside of the fetch_words() function.

Speaking Python aloud You will from time to time need to talk about Python aloud, and you’ll invariably find that — like any programming language — Python has  elements which don't lend themselves to human speech. The special names denoted by double underscores are ...