__name__ = "__main__"

I hope I understand the question correctly, but here goes 😬

You can change the __name__ attribute to restrict the execution of a Python script to only occur when it is imported into another file. This is usually done to prevent a script from running when it's imported as a module.

You can achieve this by modifying the __name__ attribute within the script you want to control like so...

script.py

def main_function():
    print("This is the main function.")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main_function()

If you want script.py to only execute when it is imported into another file, you can change it like so...

script.py

def main_function():
    print("This is the main function.")

if __name__ == "__script__":
    main_function()

Then, in another file, you could import script.py like so...

other_script.py

import script

Here, the main_function() in script.py won't run automatically when script.py is imported into other_script.py. It will only run if explicitly called within other_script.py or any other file where it's imported.

I hope this answers your question.