Lua : Detect if module has been 'required' or run as a script

Asked Jan 04 '16 at 18:12

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Does Lua have a construct that does the same thing as Python's

if __name__ == '__main__':
  # running as a script

Equivalently, I'm asking if any items in the global _ENV are reliably different when a module is 'required' vs run as a standalone script.

asked Jan 04 '16 at 18:12

Mike Ellis

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Please check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4521085/main-function-in-lua – fasouto Jan 04 '16 at 18:18
@fasouto Thanks, yes that's the question I was trying to ask. – Mike Ellis Jan 04 '16 at 22:58

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