Usefullness of begin.start as a boolean function

[Lapin0t]

Hi, this is a really great library, the first high level command-line app library I actually like (but as we all have our quirky ways of doing scripts I will be making some pull requests for side features like completion or no double flags)! There is just something that bugs me: what is the benefit of using if begin.start() over the more conventional if __name__ == '__main__' as it seems to be strictly equivalent (but more complicated since you can't just check the globals and have to fiddle with the global stackframe)?

[evanunderscore]

The only real difference is cosmetic - they do the same thing.

[Lapin0t]

That's what I was thinking. So I am going to argue in favor of deprecating this (and later dropping this feature) because begin.start is just a big overloaded mess that can either be a decorator or a decorator factory or a boolean function and because this is a duplicate that will only confuse python users (there should be only one obvious way to do it).

[evanunderscore]

Though he doesn't specifically mention the boolean part, here's what Aaron had to say about this. For what it's worth, I agree with you.