Detecting -i in a script

[Chris Rebert]

> Marek Szuba wrote:
>>
>> On 2009-04-13, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The sys.flags.interactive bool.
>>>
>>> Details: http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.flags
>>
>> Hmm, "New in version 2.6"... Are you aware of any way of extracting
>> this information in older versions of Python? My code needs to be
>> 2.3-compatible.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Static Vagabond <static at viralmind.org> wrote:
> I think getopt will help you achieve what you need.
> http://docs.python.org/library/getopt.html

A. Please don't top-post. It makes following the conversation more
difficult by presenting it out of chronological order.

B. -i is an option to the Python interpreter *itself*, not the Python
script, and so gets gobbled up before the script even starts, thus
`getopt` won't work. Observe:

chris at morpheus ~ $ cat foo.py
from sys import argv
print argv
chris at morpheus ~ $ python -i foo.py
['foo.py']
>>>

Cheers,
Chris
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