Python without a tty

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:09:54 +0100, Nobody wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:53:12 +0200, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
> 
>>> I have a Python script which I would like to test without a tty
>>> attached to the process. I could run it as a cron job, but is there an
>>> easier way?
[...]
> I suspect that the OP just wants e.g.:
> 
> 	script.py &>/dev/null <&-
> 
> which will redirect stdout and stderr to /dev/null and close stdin.


No, that's not what I wanted.

I ended up just running the script as a cron job. It was a one-off (well, 
twice actually, since the first time demonstrated a bug in my code) test 
of some code that tries to determine the size of the current terminal. I 
wanted to ensure that it would do the right thing when run without a tty, 
such as from a cron job.

Thanks to everyone who replied.



-- 
Steven