On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 03:14:53PM -0700, Ray Jones wrote: > This is only tangentially related to the thread. Someone mentioned that > so long as a script didn't require user input or output to the user, it > 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.
The usual way to detect this is by checking whether or not there is a terminal available. os.isatty(sys.stdout.fileno()) If the script is running directly in a console, isatty will return True; if it is running from cron, or via a pipe or similar, then it will return False. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
