command line or idle?

[sjf]

Is it possible to distinguish if script is running on python command line
(python.exe) or IDLE?

 

[Bob Gailer]

Is it possible to distinguish if script is running on python command line
(python.exe) or IDLE?

search archive; several threads on this recently.


Bob Gailer
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[Alex Martelli]

Is it possible to distinguish if script is running on python command line
(python.exe) or IDLE?

Not in entirely reliable way, but there are many hints you can generally
rely on. For example, in the IDLE "Python Shell" sys.stdout is an
instance of idlelib.rpc.RPCProxy (in IDLE 1.0) -- that MIGHT happen
even "on python command line", of course, but it is not very likely to.


Alex