Re: Is there a similar way to do if __name__ == '__main__' as in python ?
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- Subject: Re: Is there a similar way to do if __name__ == '__main__' as in python ?
- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@...>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 00:23:04 -0500
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:35:43PM -0800, gary ng wrote:
> I want to write lua modules and put some self testing
> code at the end of the script which got executed only
> if it is run as its own and not through "require".
>
> In python, this is usually done through
>
> if __name__ = "__main__":
>
> How should I do it in lua ?
I'm not sure (Rici probably answered that), but for this particular
task, I'd probably do it a little differently:
lua -e 'RunTests = true;' YourScript.lua
and then check RunTests.
--
Glenn Maynard