On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:04:35 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: > 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. [...] >> 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.
I'd prefer a pure-Python solution, but if the choice is between an accurate solution using an external tool, and an inaccurate Python heuristic, I'm willing to use external tools. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
