redirecting Stdin

[Jon Arter]

assume  we have a file :
after redirection   sys.stdin = file('newinput')

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#newinput file 

import socket

def detectip():
    buf = socket.gethostname()
    remotehost = socket.gethostbyname(buf)
    return remotehost


if __name__ == "__main__":

    print "Your IP address is", detectip()
    raw_input()
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using 

line=sys.stdin:readline()
exec line

This results in a parsing error when the file reading reaches the
 def detectip(): 
sentence . 
You can execute the command line as long as it is a single line
command 

How to Get arround this ?

With regards 
JON


On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 01:54:11 -0800, Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com>
wrote:

>Jon Arter wrote:
>
>> Is is Possible to redirect the Python stdin in order to receive stdin
>> commands from a file ?
>> The time of redirection can  last until exiting the Python  and should
>> be transparent for python it self.
>
>Sure:
>
>	sys.stdin = file('newinput')