Re: Equivalent to __name__ == “_main__”?

[Victor Bombi <sonoro@...>]

if ... then print"this is used by require" end

> On 12/05/2021 1:01 PM Paul Ducklin <pducklin@outlook.com> wrote:
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> Excuse my ignorance, but is there a “official” (read: preferred/reliable) way to detect that you have run a module directly as a program instead of loading it with require()?
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> Like the “name == main” trick in Python?
> 
> I have seen suggestions to use debug.getinfo() to probe the call stack depth, and testing whether the stack is too shallow to be inside a call to require(). Does that work? Is there a better way?
> 
> Thanks.