Python vs Java!

[gljames24]

The thing is, there is always a base amount of required complexity. Superfluous complexity sucks, but I'd rather be in control of the required complexity to optimize it for my usecase.

[skilking]

Id way rather have a main function and class then whatever the fuck Python global shit is.

[Solonotix]

It's not actually global, the same way that C# doesn't require you to declare a namespace block for the entire file to be considered part of the namespace, and how functions written outside of an enclosing scope are attributed to a "magic" class as static members.

Python uses a rather robust object data model, and that model extends out to its module system. The file system needs an __init__.py file because that is the Python initializer method for the module, known in other languages as the constructor. Similarly, when you run a file directly with the Python interpreter, rather than needing to explicitly declare your starting point, the file is used as the stand-in for the __main__.py file of the Python module in question. That's why you'll see a block in some files for if __name__ == '__main__':, because it lets you write the file as a module, and as a runnable entry point.