command line or idle?

[Alex Martelli]

sjf wrote:

> Is it possible to distinguish if script is running on python command line
> (python.exe) or IDLE?

Not in entirely reliable way, but there are many hints you can generally
rely on.  For example, in the IDLE "Python Shell" sys.stdout is an
instance of idlelib.rpc.RPCProxy (in IDLE 1.0) -- that MIGHT happen
even "on python command line", of course, but it is not very likely to.


Alex