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Paul:
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<div>Works like a charm, many thanks!</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Tim</div>
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<div>On May 7, 2014, at 5:25 PM, Paul Ivanov <<a href="mailto:pi@berkeley.edu">pi@berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">Shead, Timothy, on 2014-05-07 23:01, wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I have some code that I’d like to execute only when run from<br>
within ipython … is there any way to know? I’m already<br>
importing the required ipython modules in a try … catch block,<br>
so my code handles the case where IPython isn’t installed, but<br>
that doesn’t address the case where ipython is installed but<br>
not in use.<br>
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When running ipython, we expose the function `get_ipython` to get<br>
a handle on the current IPython instance. So in an interactive<br>
setting, you could just check for that and catch a name error.<br>
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More generally, you can do this:<br>
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from IPython import get_ipython<br>
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Calling get_ipython() will return None if IPython isn't running,<br>
otherwise it will return an IPython shell object.<br>
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best,<br>
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