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| Date | Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:43:09 -0400 |
| From | Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> |
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On 04/06/2013 08:35 PM, Mark Janssen wrote: >> (Apologies in advance if you get multiple copies of this. My Usenet >> connection seems to be having a conniption fit at the moment.) >> >> I'm looking for an official way to tell what interpreter (if any) is >> running, or at least a not-too-horrible unofficial way. > > I was going to work on this IDLE TODO myself, but haven't got around > to it. I think the best way is to use the tempfile module (to be > clear this is a fix within IDLE itself). > > This is the whole procedure that should be necessary: > > 1) At IDLE startup check to see if there is an existing idle tempfile > and delete it, if so. > 2) Create an IDLE temp file. > 3) At IDLE shutdown, delete prior tempfile. > > Now if anyone wants to see if IDLE is running, they only need to check > to see if the tempfile exists. > > Hope that helps. If you implement it, you can take the item off the > IDLE todo list too. > Are you assuming then that there can be only one instance of IDLE ? And that if a separate Python program is run, we should pretend that it's running under IDLE? -- DaveA
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How do I tell if I'm running under IDLE? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-05 20:30 +1100
Re: How do I tell if I'm running under IDLE? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-04-05 07:04 -0400
Re: How do I tell if I'm running under IDLE? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-05 13:37 +0000
Re: How do I tell if I'm running under IDLE? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-04-05 09:33 -0500
Re: How do I tell if I'm running under IDLE? Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-04-06 19:23 -0400
Re: How do I tell if I'm running under IDLE? Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 17:35 -0700
Re: How do I tell if I'm running under IDLE? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-04-06 20:43 -0400
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