How a script can know if it has been called with the -i command line option?

[Michael B. Trausch]

Peter Wang wrote:
> Michele Simionato wrote:
>> The subject says it all, I would like a script to act differently when
>> called as
>> $ python script.py and when called as $ python -i script.py. I looked
>> at the sys module
>> but I don't see a way to retrieve the command line flags, where should
>> I look?
> 
> I realize this is quite a hack, but the entire command line is
> preserved in the process's entry in the OS's  process table.  if you do
> "ps -ax" you will see that the interpreter was invoked with -i.  I
> didn't test this under windows, but it works on Mac and Linux.
> 

There is a set of utilities that have UNIX-like ps behavior, but, as is 
typical for Windows, they don't work the way their UNIX and UNIX-like 
counterparts do.  Does 'ps' work from within Cygwin, and if so, would 
redistributing that be an option?

	-- Mike