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Re: Excute script only from another file

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On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Himanshu Garg <hgarg.india@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want that a script should only be executed when it is called from another script and should not be directly executable through linux command line.
>
> Like, I have two scripts "scrip1.py" and "script2.py"  and there is a line in "script1.py" to call "script2.py" as subprocess.call(["python", "script2.py"]).
>
> Then this is should call script2 but I should not be able to directly call script2 as $python script2.py

Easy! Just have your subprocess.call pass a special argument, which
you then look for in script2:

subprocess.call(["python", "script2.py","confirm"])

# script2.py
import sys
if "confirm" not in sys.argv:
    print("This script should not be run directly.")
    sys.exit(1)

# rest of script2.py follows

ChrisA

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Excute script only from another file Himanshu Garg <hgarg.india@gmail.com> - 2013-11-24 17:55 -0800
  Re: Excute script only from another file Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-25 14:15 +1100
  Re: Excute script only from another file Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-11-24 22:20 -0500
    Re: Excute script only from another file Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2013-11-26 00:10 -0800
  Re: Excute script only from another file Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-11-24 19:58 -0700
  Re: Excute script only from another file Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-11-25 09:12 +0100
  Re: Excute script only from another file Himanshu Garg <hgarg.india@gmail.com> - 2013-11-25 02:52 -0800
    Re: Excute script only from another file Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-11-25 07:16 -0500
    Re: Excute script only from another file Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-11-25 18:28 -0800
      Re: Excute script only from another file Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 13:41 +1100
        Re: Excute script only from another file Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-11-25 19:45 -0800
      Re: Excute script only from another file Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-26 03:09 +0000
      Re: Excute script only from another file Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-26 12:25 -0500
      Re: Excute script only from another file Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-27 10:09 +1100
        Re: Excute script only from another file Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 17:56 -0800
          Re: Excute script only from another file Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-27 13:39 +1100

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