diff --git a/Doc/library/__main__.rst b/Doc/library/__main__.rst
index a64faf1bbe3c84..cb7233b6116b0e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/__main__.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/__main__.rst
@@ -1,25 +1,26 @@
-
-:mod:`__main__` --- Top-level script environment
-================================================
+:mod:`__main__` --- Top-level code environment
+==============================================
 
 .. module:: __main__
-   :synopsis: The environment where the top-level script is run.
+   :synopsis: The environment where top-level code is run.
 
 --------------
 
-``'__main__'`` is the name of the scope in which top-level code executes.
-A module's __name__ is set equal to ``'__main__'`` when read from
-standard input, a script, or from an interactive prompt.
+``'__main__'`` is the name of the environment where top-level code is run. A
+module's ``__name__`` is set equal to ``'__main__'`` when the module is
+initialized from an interactive prompt, from standard input, from a file
+argument, from a :option:`-c` argument or from a :option:`-m` argument, but not
+when it is initialized from an import statement.
 
-A module can discover whether or not it is running in the main scope by
+A module can discover whether or not it is running in the main environment by
 checking its own ``__name__``, which allows a common idiom for conditionally
-executing code in a module when it is run as a script or with ``python
--m`` but not when it is imported::
+executing code when the module is not initialized from an import statement::
 
-   if __name__ == "__main__":
-       # execute only if run as a script
-       main()
+    if __name__ == '__main__':
+        # Execute when the module is not initialized from an import statement.
+        main()
 
-For a package, the same effect can be achieved by including a
-``__main__.py`` module, the contents of which will be executed when the
-module is run with ``-m``.
+For a package, the same effect can be achieved by including a __main__.py
+module, the contents of which will be executed when the package is initialized
+from a file argument or from a :option:`-m` argument, but not when it is
+initialized from an import statement.