reading from sys.stdin

[7stud]

On Apr 13, 3:13 am, Michael Hoffman <cam.ac... at mh391.invalid> wrote:
> 7stud wrote:
> > I assume all input is buffered by default, so I'm not sure how it
> > explains things to say that input from sys.stdin is buffered.
>
> The difference with sys.stdin is that it has indeterminate length until
> you signal EOF. I believe you'd get the same problem reading from, say,
> a named pipe.
>

Couldn't you say the same thing about a file you are iterating over?


> >> 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.
>
> > Interesting example--not as I expected!  But there is a difference in
> > the two examples isn't there?  When you iterate over a file, the whole
> > file isn't put into an internal buffer first, is it?
>
> It is if the file is smaller than the buffer size.
>

How is that relevant?

> >> This should be f = iter(raw_input,"") and this will end in a EOFError
> >> and stop on blank line. So you need a wrapper
>
> > Why a wrapper?
>
> Because without a wrapper you'll get EOFError, while the file iterator
> would ordinarily give you StopIteration.
>

Did you run my example?  Did you get an error?  I don't get an error.