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According to the official documentation, the purpose of `__main__.py`
files is that their presence in a package (say, `foo`) means one can
execute the package directly using `python -m foo` (which will run the
aforementioned `foo/__main__.py` file).
In principle this means that adding `if __name__ == "__main__"` in these
files is superfluous, as they are only intended to be executed (and not
imported by some other file).
However, in practice people often _do_ include the above construct.
Here are some instances of this on LGTM.com:
https://lgtm.com/query/7521266095072095777/
In particular, 10 out of 33 files in `cpython` have this construct.
This causes some confusion in our module naming, as we usually see the
presence of `__name__ == "__main__"` as an indication that a file may
be run directly (and hence with "absolute import" semantics). However,
when run with `python -m`, the interpreter uses the usual package
semantics, and this leads to modules getting multiple names.
For this reason, I think it makes sense to simply exclude `__main__.py`
files from consideration. Note that if there is a `#!` line mentioning
the Python interpreter, then they will still be included as entry
points.
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