How to check if you are in a Jupyter notebook
You don't need to check if the code is being run from a Notebook; display() prints text when called from the command line.
test.py:
from IPython.display import displayimport pandas as pd my_df = pd.DataFrame({'foo':[1,2,3],'bar':[7,8,9]})display(my_df)From the command line:
$ python test.py bar foo0 7 11 8 22 9 3From a Jupyter Notebook:
UPDATE
To check whether you're running inside an interactive Ipython shell (command-line or browser-based), check for get_ipython. (Adapted from the Ipython docs)
Modified test.py:
from IPython.display import display, HTMLimport pandas as pd my_df = pd.DataFrame({'foo':[1,2,3],'bar':[7,8,9]})try: get_ipython display(my_df)except: print(my_df)This approach will:
- pretty-print in a browser Jupyter notebook
- print text when run as a script from the command line (e.g. python test.py)
- if run line-by-line in a Python shell, it will not turn into an interactive Ipython shell after printing
You should look in os.environ.
On my machine you can see it in
os.environ['_']