Check os.isatty(fd). It will return True if fd is a terminal-like device. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Edward d'Auvergne <edw...@nmr-relax.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone knows of how to detect when IO redirection > of any form is happening within a Python program? I would like to > emulate the behaviour of the GNU tools (for example the Unix commands > 'ls' or 'grep') whereby ascii escape sequences are printed if the > output is solely to the terminal, and in all other cases (redirection > to file via '>', pipes via '|', or more complex redirections) the > ascii escape characters are suppressed. Any ideas would be > appreciated! > > Cheers, > > Edward > > > -- > Edward d'Auvergne, PhD > Lead developer of the projects relax, minfx, and bmrblib > http://www.nmr-relax.com > http://gna.org/projects/minfx > http://gna.org/projects/bmrblib > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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