reading stdinput

[Neil Schemenauer]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:11:00AM +0930, Michael Hall wrote:
> How do I read standard input into a Python script? I'm trying to do the
> same as 'read' in a shell script to create a variable. I've played about
> with various combinations of 'sys.stdin.read()' and such but no go.

You haven't defined your problem very well.  sys.stdin.read()
will indeed read from stdin.  Perhaps you want
sys.stdin.readline() or raw_input()?  For example:

    x = raw_input("Your name: ")
    print "Hello", x

Cheers,

  Neil