How to detect python is running inside Spyder

[eendebakpt]

Problem Description

Is the an "official" way to detect a python session is running as a console inside Spyder?

There are some methods listed in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53829284/how-to-know-if-a-script-is-running-in-spyder-or-any-other-python-ide, but it is not directly clear whether there is a preferred one.

Also see tqdm/tqdm#1559

[ccordoba12]

Hey @eendebakpt, thanks for reporting. Between the two methods mentioned in the SO question you referenced, I think it's safer to use the second one, i.e.

from IPython import get_ipython

shell_cls_name = get_ipython().__class__.__name__
if shell_cls_name == 'SpyderShell':
    # Do things only for Spyder
    ...

That's because we're considering to remove all env vars we use to start a kernel (the SPY_* ones mentioned there), but SpyderShell is not going to go away.

Let us know if that's enough for the Spyder support you're trying to add to tqdm (and thanks for taking care of that, by the way).

[ccordoba12]

Closing because I saw you followed my suggestion in your tqdm PR.