On Feb 14, 11:06 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It depends on what you mean by "an interactive shell"? If you start your > script with: > python -i whatever.py > is it an interactive shell or not? > > I tried these two criteria: > a) See if the __main__ module has a __file__ attribute. > b) See if sys.stdin is a real tty
Right, so my idea of an 'interactive shell' seems to be a little ill defined. Nonetheless, looking if the main module has a file attribute looked to be a good idea until I tried it on IPython - returns True... I think I'll do what I said in the first post, but add an option to override the behaviour for less usual circumstances. Seems to be the best compromise. Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
