stdin -> stdout

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 11:57:50 EDT 2005


max(01)* wrote:
> i was wondering, what's the simplest way to echo the standard input to 
> the standard output, with no modification.

import sys
for line in iter(sys.stdin.readline, ''):
     sys.stdout.write(line)

Note that this uses the second form of iter(), which calls its first 
argument repeatedly until it returns the sentinel value (its second 
argument).

STeVe



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