Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Le Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:09:58 +0100, Roald de Vries a écrit :

Dear all,

Is it possible for a Python script to detect whether it is running
interactively? It can be useful for e.g. defining functions that are
only useful in interactive mode.

Try the isatty() method (*) on e.g. stdin:

$ python -c "import sys; print sys.stdin.isatty()"
True
$ echo "" | python -c "import sys; print sys.stdin.isatty()"
False


(*) http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#file.isatty


Your test determines whether input is redirected. But I think the OP was asking how to detect whether the script was being run from an interpreter prompt.


DaveA
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