Blocking read on pipes

[Jeff Epler]

Python's file.read() corresponds most closely to C's fread(3).
Python's os.read() corresponds most closely to POSIX's read(2).

Maybe you want
    os.read(0, 256)
instead of 
    sys.stdin.read(256)

Jeff
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