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Hi All,

I've written a Python replacement of fixbb, as shell/awk script that
will create tightly fitting bounding boxes for PostScript files.

Most of the functionality is encapsulated in a small function called
fixbb(filename). I'm importing this into other code via 'import'.

A few lines of code for command line handling make the module into a
freestanding program. For simplicity and ease of maintenance, I would
rather keep library and program as a single file.

However, the command line code is also executed when the module is
imported, not only when the stand-alone program is executed. That is
not, of course, intended (or working).

Is there a (portable, standard) way for the program/module to find out
if it is imported or executed stand-alone?

You can find the code at
http://www.eprover.org/SOFTWARE/utilities.html

Bye,

Stephan

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Stephan Schulz wrote:

> Is there a (portable, standard) way for the program/module to find out
> if it is imported or executed stand-alone?

if a module is executed, it's name is set to "__main__". see:

http://www.python.org/doc/faq/progra...nt-module-name

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Stephan Schulz wrote:

> Is there a (portable, standard) way for the program/module to find out
> if it is imported or executed stand-alone?

def fixbb(*filelist):
# ...

if __name__ == '__main__':
# Executed stand-alone
fixbb(sys.argv[1:])

(Obviously, you'd probably want to do more command-line checking than
this...)

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International

In article <mailman.2715.1108581429.22381.python->,
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>Stephan Schulz wrote:
>
>> Is there a (portable, standard) way for the program/module to find out
>> if it is imported or executed stand-alone?
>
>if a module is executed, it's name is set to "__main__". see:
[...]

It works. Thanks!

Bye,

Stephan

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