Determining if program executing in shell background?

[Martin v. Löwis]

"Kevin Perrott" <kevin at riversidehonda.com> writes:

> I'm trying to find a function that will tell me if a pyton program is
> executing in the background when launched using the:

I may be mistaken, but I believe it is not possible to determine
whether a program runs in the background (using any programming
language).

Regards,
Martin