reading from sys.stdin

[Diez B. Roggisch]

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> 
> I just typed in 700 lines of text, and the iteration hasn't begun
> yet.  Should I keep going?
> 

Well, I'm not sure how much of a programmer you are if you don't get the 
idea of writing a _program_ to do the typing....

-------- a.py -----------
import sys

counter = 0
try:
     while True:
         s = str(counter) + '\n'
         counter += len(s)
         sys.stdout.write(s)
except IOError:
     sys.stderr.write(s)


------- b.py ------------

import sys

lst = []
for line in sys.stdin:
     lst.append(line)
     break

print lst



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Besides that, a little bit of logic thinking should make clear that 
having to wait till EOF won't work too much for piping programs that 
produce continously output with possibly terabytes of data. Even under 
modern memory constraints...


Diez