Reading from stdin

[Skip Montanaro]

    Colin> However, I want the python script to print out the numbers as it
    Colin> gets them, since there could be hours/days between numbers - not
    Colin> a very efficient C program :). Actually, I would like to
    Colin> read-a-line/ print-a-line/ read-a-line/etc

    Colin> I have tried things like 'sys.stdin.read*' with no success.

Have you tried this?

    import sys
    for line in sys.stdin:
        print line.strip()

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