using python with -c (as a inline execution in shell)

[Alex Martelli]

les ander <les_ander at yahoo.com> wrote:

> but suppose I want to read from the stdin (piped) i don't know how to do
> this since python -c "from sys import stdin; for x in stdin: print x"
> 
> gives a syntax error.
> 
> Anyone one know how to do this?

Not _good_ ways, but:

import sys; print sys.stdin.read()

import sys; sys.stdout.write(sys.stdin.read())

import sys; sys.stdout.writelines(sys.stdin)

are some approaches.  None matches the double-spacing effect you appear
to be after, but changing every '\n' into two ain't _that_ hard, e.g.

import sys; print sys.stdin.read().replace('\n','\n\n')

etc, will give kinda the same doublespacing your approach would give if
it worked.  Still, Python just isn't oneline-oriented...


Alex