reading from sys.stdin

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:20:58 -0300, 7stud <bbxx789_05ss at yahoo.com>  
escribió:

> I can't break out of the for loop in this example:
>
> ------
> import sys
>
> lst = []
> for line in sys.stdin:
>     lst.append(line)
>     break
>
> print lst
> -----------

Python 2.5.1c1 (r251c1:54692, Apr  5 2007, 09:19:18) [MSC v.1310 32 bit  
(Intel)]
  on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
py> import sys
py> lst = []
py> for line in sys.stdin:
...     lst.append(line)
...     break
...
hola
que
tal
como
estan
^Z
py> print lst
['hola\n']
-----------

I typed many lines, but lst contains only one item, as expected. Same as  
your regular file example: the file contains many lines, but only the  
first goes into the list.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina