wittempj at hotmail.com wrote: > to me it seems the ',' is superfluous, this works: python -c "import > sys;print ''.join([l for l in sys.stdin.readlines()])" in 2.4.1 - with > the comma it works as well but it looks weird, as if you want to > un-pack a tuple. Without the comma, an additional newline is written at the end.