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

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> (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.

MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington

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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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