[Jython-users] Jython - Python

[Christian J. <chr...@gm...>]

Hi there,

I would like to know what you think is the best way to recognize -
right at the beginning of a script -, whether the code is run by
Jython or pure Python interpreter, because I will get ImportError when
Python sees the "import java" lines etc. (also if the script is part
of a package and another module is imported)

Right now I am wrapping into a try ... except ImportError statement,
but that's not an ideal way to solve this problem. What I need is a
serious information source, for example from some sys attribute, that
gives me a string containing the word "Jython" or something like that.
One possibility I also found, was to check for sys.platform which
gives back "Java..." when working with the Jython core.
For example one could test like this:
if 'Java' in sys.platform:
    # import of java api classes goes here

But I don't know, if that would be reliable.

How do you handle this type of problem? Thanks for any information.

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Best Regards
Christian Junker