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🎉 Good job! You just pushed your first Python code! Now let's try making some changes...

Notice that the first and last lines of the Python file reference main(). That's a Python function and it runs automatically every time you call the script. But only because we told it to.

Try changing the name to something else--almost anything, as long as it doesn't have spaces and isn't a reserved word.

Maybe use a synonym of main, such as primary.

The important thing is to change it in both places, the first line and the last line.

Now run your code again: python get-quote.py or python3 get-quote.py

If you get an error, you might have only changed main in one place, or removed the important () from after the name. You'd also get an error if you changed that __main__ thing (line 10), so leave that one be.

Push your changes

When your Python script is running, you'll see the quote again.

To move on to the next step, push your changes:

• git add get-quote.py
• git commit -m "Renamed the primary function"
• git push

When I see the push come through, I'll share your next steps!

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Learning the things you can change and the things you can't is a big part of programming.

Next we'll read from our quotes file, taking a step toward building the quote bot.

You can track your progress in this new issue.

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