check if running under IDLE

[Bob Gailer]

At 11:48 AM 8/6/2003 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
[snip][
To check a script accessing sys.argv I have to set it.
>Unfortunately the 'Run' pulldown menu of IDLE doesn't have an item
>to set sys.argv as it's common with debuggers for C.
>
>Now in Python I can set  sys.argv within the script,
>but forgetting to comment this out afterwards makes the
>script wrong outside of IDLE
>
>So I'd like to say
>
>if __IDLE_IS_RUNNUNG__:
>   sys.argv=['test','-a','/home/jarausch/BackUp']
>
>but I haven't work how to check if the script is running under IDLE's 
>supervision.

import sys
__IDLE_IS_RUNNUNG__ = len(sys.modules) > 20

Bob Gailer
bgailer at alum.rpi.edu
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