I have a Python program I’m building that can be run in either of 2 ways: the first is to call “python main.py” which prompts the user for input in a friendly manner and then runs the user input through the program. The other way is to call “python batch.py -file-” which will pass over all the friendly input gathering and run an entire file’s worth of input through the program in a single go.
The problem is that when I run “batch.py” it imports some variables/methods/etc from “main.py”, and when it runs this code:
import main
at the first line of the program, it immediately errors because it tries to run the code in “main.py”.
How can I stop Python from running the code contained in the “main” module which I’m importing?