On Jul 16, 10:47 am, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: ...
> This older post should > help:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/6c5... > > But the quick answer is to import sys into your program, and do a test > on hasattr(sys, 'ps1'), which is only created when running the > interactive prompt. As you note there, this will work when running the vanilla shell (ie running it from the command line), but not (potentially) in other interactive environments (IronPython being the example you give). Another instance: there is not sys.ps1 when running a python shell under idle. Since this solution differs whether the interactive session is taking place from the cmd line, idle, IronPython etc. it seems to me not terribly robust. Depending on the use case, it is of course easy to tell whether the module was executed on the command line, or imported (from an interactive shell or another script) using the __name__ trick. (eg. is_imported = __name__ == '__main__') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
