> If you want to know if your program has been launched from an interactive > terminal or from a system background process like cron or init, then you > look to see if stdin is a tty. Unix is usually very careful about who has a > "controlling tty" and who does not. In Python, file objects have an isatty() > method that will return True or False. > > import sys > isinteractive = sys.stdin.isatty() > if isinteractive: > ... > else: > ... >
tested and it works ! Ced. -- Cedric BRINER _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
