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Re: Excute script only from another file

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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

Put the toplevel code into a function, i. e. change

#script2.py old
print "hello from script2"

to

# script2.py new

def f(): # you should pick a descriptive name instead of f
    print "hello from script2"

and then import it from script1 and invoke the function:

# script1.py old
#...
subprocess.call("python", "script2.py")
#...

# script1.py new
import script1
#...
script.f()
#...

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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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