how to calculate the size of sys.stdin?

Kalle Svensson kalle at gnupung.net
Wed Apr 11 18:47:20 EDT 2001


Sez Graham Guttocks:
> Is there a way to calculate the size (in bytes) of sys.stdin?

No, sys.stdin has no size.  What you can do is read from sys.stdin and check
how much you got:

input = sys.stdin.read()
size = len(input)

Peace,
  Kalle
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