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From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject: Re: Excute script only from another file
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 07:16:46 -0500
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:52:46 -0800 (PST), Himanshu Garg 
<hgarg.india@gmail.com> wrote:
> My motive is "I will give scripts to somebody else and he should 
not run the script directly without running the parent script".

Perhaps it should be a module,  not a script. Have it protect itself 
with the usual if __name__ == "__main__"

And of course it gets executed by an import and a call.

-- 
DaveA