How to determine environment

[Skip Montanaro]

    Rick> What's the best way to determine what environment a program is
    Rick> running in? I want the program to use Tkinter if in X and ncurses
    Rick> if run in a console.

Rick,

Try peeking at os.environ:

    >>> import os
    >>> os.environ.get("DISPLAY", "")
    ':0.0'

Docs here:

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/os-procinfo.html

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