On 02/09/12 23:14, Ray Jones wrote:
could run silently in the background. But is there a way for a Python (2.7.3) script to determine whether it was called by the user or called by something like cron or kalarm? That way user inputs could be used when called by a user, but defaults could be used if run by a bot.
Yes you can query the user via the os module.(getuid or getlogin for example)
Or is this more of a Linux question?
The details are likely to be implementation dependant, differing even between local hosts since it depends on how the admin has set up the user for cron etc
hth -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
