sys.stdin.read question

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-12-07, It's me <itsme at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> Dunno. Works fine for me under 2.3.4, and according to the
>> docs, should work under 2.4.
>>
>> What do you get when you do this:
>>
>>  import sys
>
> Done that.
>
>>  type(sys.stdin)
>
> I get:
>
>     <type 'instance'>
>
>>  dir(sys.stdin)
>
> I get:
>
> ['_RPCProxy__attributes', '_RPCProxy__getattributes',
> '_RPCProxy__getmethods', '_RPCProxy__methods', '__doc__', '__getattr__',
> '__init__', '__module__', 'encoding', 'oid', 'sockio']

> ????????

As somebody else already suggested, you must be running your
program inside some sort of IDE that replaces sys.stdin with
some other object that doesn't have a read() method.  Try
running the program from a shell prompt.


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