shellingham 1.0.0.dev1

Tool to Detect Surrounding Shell

Shellingham detects what shell the current Python executable is running in.

Usage

>>> import shellingham
>>> shellingham.detect_shell()
('bash', '/bin/bash')

detect pokes around the process’s running environment to determine what shell it is run in. It returns a 2-tuple:

• The executable name (without extension on Windows), always lowercased.

• The command used to run the shell.

ShellDetectionFailure is raised if detect fails to detect the surrounding shell.