(Apologies in advance if you get multiple copies of this. My Usenet
connection seems to be having a conniption fit at the moment.)
I'm looking for an official way to tell what interpreter (if any) is
running, or at least a not-too-horrible unofficial way.
Googling comes up with a number of hacks for detecting IDLE. Some of them
are terrible. For example, I can't believe that somebody actually
suggested this:
if len(sys.modules) > 20:
print "running under IDLE"
This one is better, but still not exactly what I consider great:
sys.stdin.__class__.__module__.startswith('idlelib')
Ideally, I'd like to detect any arbitrary environment such as Spyder,
IPython, BPython, etc., but will settle for just IDLE.
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Steven
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