Tell if Python is in interactive mode

Question

In a Python script, is there any way to tell if the interpreter is in interactive mode? This would be useful so that, for instance, when you run an interactive Python sessio

Answer 1

Here's something that would work. Put the following code snippet in a file, and assign the path to that file to the PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable.

__pythonIsInteractive__ = None

And then you can use

if __name__=="__main__":
    #do stuff
elif '__pythonIsInteractive__' in globals():
    #do other stuff
else:
    exit()

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/interpreter.html#the-interactive-startup-file