vasudevram wrote: > Peter Wang wrote: > > Michele Simionato wrote: > > > The subject says it all, I would like a script to act differently when > > > called as > > > $ python script.py and when called as $ python -i script.py. I looked > > > at the sys module > > > but I don't see a way to retrieve the command line flags, where should > > > I look? > > > > I realize this is quite a hack, but the entire command line is > > preserved in the process's entry in the OS's process table. if you do > > "ps -ax" you will see that the interpreter was invoked with -i. I > > didn't test this under windows, but it works on Mac and Linux. > > That hack might not work - at least, as described, and on Linux or Mac > OS if the UNIX-based one, i.e. OS X). Because there could be other > users who ran python command lines with or without the -i option. As > described, there's no way for this user to know which python invocation > is his/hers, and which are of other users. There might be a way, > though, if we can get this user's python instance's process id and then > grep for a line containing that id (in the appropriate column) in the > ps output. > > Vasudev Ram > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dancing Bison Enterprises > http://www.dancingbison.com > http://dancingbison.blogspot.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Check out the cool Snap.com preview feature on my web site. > Free signup for anyone at www.snap.com > I'm not affiliated with it.
Just realized: getting the python process's process id is possible from the Python program itself, using os.getpid(). Vasudev -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
