sys.stdin.read question

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-12-08, Caleb Hattingh <caleb1 at telkomsa.net> wrote:

> It runs properly in a shell (bash), but on another matter:
>
> '>>> r=sys.stdin.read(1)
> g
> '>>> r
> 'g'
> '>>> r=sys.stdin.read(5)
> 1234567890
> '>>> r
> '\n1234'
> '>>>
>
> What exactly happened to my 1234567890?  I understand that I am only  
> taking 5 characters, but where does the newline (\n) come from?  Is that a  
> remnant from when I terminated the previous 'g' input?

Exactly.

The input stream consisted of 'g\n1234567890\n'

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