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Re: Excute script only from another file

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On 11/24/2013 06:55 PM, Himanshu Garg 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

I'm not totally sure what you mean, but if you want to prevent the
script from doing anything when run from the command line but have it do
something when imported as a module then just put this at the beginning:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    sys.exit(0)

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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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