Excute python script only from another script?

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

1 Answer

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

answer Nov 25, 2013 by Dewang Chaudhary

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