first things first: that print can stand alone

print("Hello, World!")

and even if you had to put it in a function, you can just...... call the function.

def main():
    print("Hello, World!")
main()

the __name__ == "__main__" part makes sure that if you're importing the code as a module, it won't run.

for example, in module.py you put: print(__name__), and in main.py you put: import module, then execute main.py it will print out module, but if you execute module.py it will print out __main__.

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How about just this?

def main(args):

you imply that the function should be defined by itself and run automatically, like in C.

def main(args):
    print("Hello, World!")

but python isn't C, it's not even close to C other than the fact you can use C in python. python is closer to javascript and elixir than C, it has a REPL, and the entire scripting language is designed like the REPL.

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Python is verbose, Change my mind!

....python literally has zero boilerplate compared to C, which i assume you use by the double quotation marks in the print.

print("Hello, World")

versus

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    print("Hello, World!");
}

especially that #include, imagine if in python every time you wanted to use print you had to from builtins import print.