pipe command to script

[Robert Kern]

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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