pipe command to script

Josh Close narshe at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 15:30:37 EDT 2004


Nice, that's easy. I did it some other way last time that worked
also..... probably doing things twice the other way though.

Thanks!

-Josh


On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:24:25 -0700, Robert Kern <rkern at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Josh Close wrote:
> > How can I read input from stdin pipe from somewhere?
> >
> > ex:
> > # echo hello | script.py
> >
> > I was thinking opening file() or popen() with sys.stdin, but that
> > didn't work. I've done this before but don't have the code anymore and
> > can't figure it out again.
> 
> sys.stdin is already an open file object. Just call sys.stdin.read().
> 
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -Josh
> 
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