On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Vincent Knight wrote:
I have Sage running a bunch of numerical experiments on a cluster. If this change of start up would stop some of those running (as I wouldn't input anything) I also don't think it's a good idea.
Python already knows if it is used interactively or not: [jm58660@localhost ~]$ echo print 1+2 | python 3 [jm58660@localhost ~]$ python Python 2.7.5 (default, Nov 3 2014, 14:26:24) [GCC 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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No version information in first case. -- Jori Mäntysalo