🔒 Why did I get this message while trying to use dunder name == dunder 'main?' (I use VS Code)

[zealous canyon]

This is the message that appears: Main is not defined
[{
"resource": "/C:/Users/ASUS ID/Python folders/Testing/.test.py",
"owner": "Pylance3",
"code": {
"value": "reportUndefinedVariable",
"target": {
"$mid": 1,
"path": "/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/diagnostics/reportUndefinedVariable.md",
"scheme": "https",
"authority": "github.com"
}
},
"severity": 4,
"message": ""main" is not defined",
"source": "Pylance",
"startLineNumber": 2,
"startColumn": 5,
"endLineNumber": 2,
"endColumn": 9,
"modelVersionId": 19,
"origin": "extHost1"
}]

I'm new and trying to learn module packages, I used snippets for this
ctrl + shift + p > configure snippets > python.json and i typed this outside the curly brackets on a new line:
}
"Main": {
"prefix": "main",
"body": [
"if name == "main":",
"\t${1:pass}"
],
"description": "Insert main block"
}

what can i do to learn module and help this work?

[little cosmos]

@zealous canyon

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[winter niche]

Can you edit this message to enclose the code parts in code blocks so that they render correctly?

!code

[little cosmos]

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[winter niche]

Things like __ are markdown, and outside a code block they vanish, changing the rendering of the text.

[zealous canyon]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try that out after going home

[hidden badger]

i'm assuming the body part looks something like

"body": [
    "if __name__ == "__main__":",
    "    ${1:pass}"
],

if so, that's probably not gonna work. either swap the quotes on main to 's or escape both "s

[zealous canyon]

which part

[hidden badger]

in your python.json snippets file

[winter niche]

You might also need to tell us a bit about your dev environment, since this looks like som python code buried in some JSON, making things harder.

[zealous canyon]

Do you have an easier alternative

@winter niche

[winter niche]

Can you first edit your opening message to put code blocks around the json?
```json
your JSON chunk
goes here
```
i.e. insert the ```json line above and the ``` below.

The normal python "main" boilerplate looks like this:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    ... run the main programme ...

[little cosmos]

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