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    Alan Kilborn @Paul Wormer
    last edited by Alan Kilborn Jan 5, 2022, 3:13 PM Jan 5, 2022, 3:12 PM

    @paul-wormer

    I should have added that the “inspect” stuff is there because when I write scripts that use either notepad.messageBox() or notepad.prompt() functions, these bring up a dialog box, and take a parameter to specify the title bar; I like to put the script name there (typically), and rather than hardcode its name, I fetch it at runtime using “inspect”. My mb() function is a little helper function that “wraps” notepad.messageBox() and shows this.

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      Paul Wormer @Alan Kilborn
      last edited by Jan 5, 2022, 3:14 PM

      @alan-kilborn OK thank you, you give me something to try out!

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        Paul Wormer @Paul Wormer
        last edited by Jan 5, 2022, 3:23 PM

        @paul-wormer I see “os.sep”, shouldn’t one “import os”?

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          Alan Kilborn @Paul Wormer
          last edited by Alan Kilborn Jan 5, 2022, 3:31 PM Jan 5, 2022, 3:29 PM

          @paul-wormer said in PythonScript early return:

          I see “os.sep”, shouldn’t one “import os”?

          Yes, good catch.

          So the reason it doesn’t fail without it, for me, is that my startup.py (or something it imports) must import os.

          I usually test all of my scripts in a “clean” setup before posting; this one seemed so simple, I guess I didn’t bother. :-(

          PythonScripts are a bit different from the normal use case for Python – here, everything previously done is “remembered”.

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            Paul Wormer @Paul Wormer
            last edited by Jan 5, 2022, 3:30 PM

            @paul-wormer
            So,

            import inspect, os 
            inspect.getframeinfo(inspect.currentframe()).filename.split(os.sep)[-1].rsplit('.', 1)[0]
            

            is wizardry just to get the script name without extension?

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              Alan Kilborn @Paul Wormer
              last edited by Jan 5, 2022, 3:32 PM

              @paul-wormer said in PythonScript early return:

              is wizardry

              ???

              No wizardry, just code.

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                Paul Wormer @Alan Kilborn
                last edited by Jan 5, 2022, 3:34 PM

                @alan-kilborn Just kidding. OK you helped me a lot, got wiser by the minute. I know now what to do, thank you again.

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                  Paul Wormer @Paul Wormer
                  last edited by Jan 5, 2022, 4:55 PM

                  @paul-wormer
                  Next question: I have been googling and found an alternative for finding a filename:

                  os.path.basename(os.path.abspath(__file__)).rsplit('.')[0]
                  

                  This does not require importing inspect. I don’t doubt that you are aware of this solution, and since you are not using it, it must have its drawbacks. What are they?

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                    Paul Wormer @Paul Wormer
                    last edited by Jan 5, 2022, 5:02 PM

                    @paul-wormer Or even shorter:

                    os.path.basename(__file__).rsplit('.')[0]
                    
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                      Alan Kilborn @Paul Wormer
                      last edited by Jan 5, 2022, 6:04 PM

                      @paul-wormer

                      So, often when I post scripts here, I take something existing that I have (working for a need specific to me), and strip some things out. That’s the case here.

                      As we’re really trying to focus on Notepad++ and/or PythonScript specific stuff here, diving deeper into the ways of “inspect” or other such things really isn’t appropriate, as it is really not related to either.

                      In the spirit of fun coding, if you find what you think is a better way of doing something, I say “go for it!”.

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                        Alan Kilborn @Paul Wormer
                        last edited by Jan 5, 2022, 9:24 PM

                        @paul-wormer said in PythonScript early return:

                        I see “os.sep”, shouldn’t one “import os”?

                        I requested a forum moderator to add the missing import os to the script listing above, and that was done…thanks Mr. Moderator!

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