Can I detect if my code is running on cPython or Jython?

Question

I\'m working on a small django project that will be deployed in a servlet container later. But development is much faster if I work with cPython instead of Jython. So what I

Answer 1

The most clear-cut way is:

import platform

platform.python_implementation()

'CPython'

By default, most of the time the underlying interpreter is CPython only which is also arguably the most efficient one :)