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Re: How do I tell if I'm running under IDLE?

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On 04/05/2013 05:30 AM, Steven D'Aprano 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.
>
> Googling comes up with a number of hacks for detecting IDLE. Some of them
> are terrible. For example, I can't believe that somebody actually
> suggested this:
>
> if len(sys.modules) > 20:
>      print "running under IDLE"
>
>
> This one is better, but still not exactly what I consider great:
>
> sys.stdin.__class__.__module__.startswith('idlelib')
>
>
>
> Ideally, I'd like to detect any arbitrary environment such as Spyder,
> IPython, BPython, etc., but will settle for just IDLE.
>
>
>

Are you open to OS-specific techniques?  For example, on Linux, you 
could learn things from ps aux.


-- 
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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