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testing if open to a terminal - Skaperen - Feb-01-2019
the "test" command on Unix/Linux/Posix systems does have a means to test if a specified file descriptor is is open to a terminal or not. it does it like:
test -t 1 i am looking for the pythonic way to do this. in general, i will need to apply this to stdin and less often to stdout and maybe sometimes stderr or other things.