Determine if the program is called from a script in Python

Question

doa

#!/bin/sh
myexe

myexe

if sys.stdout.isatty():
    print \'from a script\'
else:
    print \'not from a script\'


        

Answer 1

You can use psutil to ask for the name of the process with id the parent process id:

import psutil
import os

ppid = os.getppid() # Get parent process id
psutil.Process(ppid).name() == "bash"

You can install psutil with pip command:

pip install psutil