Checking for interactive shell in a Python script

This is often works well enough

import os, sysif os.isatty(sys.stdout.fileno()):    ...

python shell pipe interactive

From this link you can use the same way and test if stdin is associated to a terminate(tty), you can do this using os.isatty(), example:

>>> os.isatty(0)True

N.B: From the same link this will fails when you invoke the command remotely via ssh, the solution given is to test if stdin is associated to a pipe.

python shell pipe interactive

If you already have a dependency on matplotlib, or you don't mind introducing one, you can always just call matplotlib.is_interactive()

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