How to recognize whether a script is running on a

问题:

I would like my script to act differently in an interactive shell session and when running with redirected stdout (for example when piped to some other command).

How do I recognize which of these two happen in a Python script?

Example of such behavior in existing program: grep --color=auto highlights matches when running in interactive shell, but doesn't when piped to something else.

回答1:

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

or

sys.stdout.isatty()