On 04/05/2013 05:30 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
(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.
Are you open to OS-specific techniques? For example, on Linux, you could learn things from ps aux.
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