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When the Python interpreter reads a source file, it executes all of the code found in it.

Before executing the code, it will define a few special variables. For example, if the python interpreter is running that module (the source file) as the main program, it sets the special name variable to have a value "main". If this file is being imported from another module, name will be set to the module's name.

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