Using Python with RHEL 5 and JBoss EAP 5.1

[cxwells]

I've attempted to write a small script that when ran successfully should return a menu of JBoss server instances. Below is the script.

import os

import sys

# Create Parent Menu

def parent_menu():

    num = 1

    menuItems = {}

    files = os.listdir('/dsto/sw/dev/webapps/jbossEAP5.1/applications/jbossas/server')

    os.system("clear")

    print "Server Instances"

    print "****************"

    for file in files:

        print "%d. %-3s" % (num, file)

        menuItems[num] = file

        num = num + 1

    try:

        print ""

        selection = raw_input("Choose Server Instance: ")

        print ""

        print "You selected %s" % menuItems[int(selection)]

        choice = menuItems[int(selection)]

        return choice

    except KeyError, ValueError:

        print "%s is not a menu option!" % selection

        exit

if __name__=="main":

    parent_menu()

    print "Main Executed"

else:

    print "Main not executed"

The issue I am having is that when run flow falls to the 'else:' statement in the main mod and dies. My testing indicates that it doesn't like if __name__=="main":

If I take this script and place it on a Unix AIX machine it runs fine without issue.

Has anyone ever come across an instance where the main module doesn't process as expected that's similar to what I am seeing?

[cxwells]

I should point out that if I remove the main module and run everything top to bottom it works fine but we may want to import this and use the methods here from another script.