My code is acting weird

[SirFriendly2525]

This is my main for some python 3 code i'm writing. For some reason when i run the program, it runs one of my modules and not the main. Am i missing something?

I initially did not have the if_name_=='_main_': segment, but i did have the main() line. i just found that and tried to see if it would help... it didn't. 

 

import selection, joke, time, hello
def main():
    name=''
    username = hello.hello(name)
    games = input("Would you like to see my programs?\n")
    if games == 'y':
        selection.selection()
    elif games == 'n':
        print('Really',username,'?')
        time.sleep(.500)
        print('Your no fun')
        time.sleep(.500)
        jokeyn = input("Would you like to hear a joke then?\n")
        if jokeyn == 'y':
            joke.joke()
        else:
            print('Why are you here then?')
    else:
        exit()

if __name__== "__main__":
    main()

[Mira Yurizaki]

Python executes modules when you import them. That's the nature of its interpreted design. So if you have something like this:

print('Hello world!')

def print_test():
    print('Hello test!')

If you import this module, it's going to execute print('Hello world!') because it's executing this code as if you were punching it in the Python interpreter.

 

It's best to think of Python files as a script to save you from inputting the same things into the interpreter itself.

[SirFriendly2525]

Thank you for the reply. I have a basic understanding of python (super basic) but this might help, Here is the main module for this code. I will attach a picture of the mathTest module that keeps running first. 

At the bottom you can see the console output shows the first input line from the mathTest module and not the main like it is suppose to.

Yes, I have selected the main module before running to tell the program i want that code to run but no matter which one i select it always runs the mathTest module. 

(There are a few logic errors in the mathTest code as well but that shouldn't effect it running only the expected output for that module)

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Without seeing what the rest of the code in the mathTest module is, I can't really figure out where the problem is.

[SirFriendly2525]

My apologizes. Here is the remainder of the mathTest code.

I know the code for the mathtest does not give me the correct output but it does run without to many problems. 

My issue is that it overrides my main module by running the mathtest first then it runs the main. 

 

I have attached image of the console output as well. For some reason, the mathTest runs first. 

 

when i go into selection module and make the call to the mathtest a note, the program runs just fine. once i enable the mathtest in selection it creates this issue. 

I have attached a third image of the selection module as well, if it helps. 

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

The problem starts on line 43 of the mathtest module. If you intended the code to run inside the mathtest function, you need to indent the code. Otherwise it's out of the function's scope and mathtest is a function that does nothing. And since the scope outside of the function definition is basically the global scope and what I said earlier, Python will execute that code the moment you import the module.

[SirFriendly2525]

Thank you so much M.Yurizaki. I don't know how i missed something that simple. 

[reniat]

8 minutes ago, SirFriendly2525 said:

I don't know how i missed something that simple. 

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