reading from sys.stdin

[Matimus]

On Apr 12, 8:20 am, Maric Michaud <m... at aristote.info> wrote:
> Le jeudi 12 avril 2007 16:25, Matimus a écrit :
>
> > # Then you check to see if your file is interactive
> > if f.isatty():
> >     # This is unbuffered, and will iterate the same as f
> >     f = iter(raw_input(),"")
>
> This should be f = iter(raw_input,"") and this will end in a EOFError and stop
> on blank line.
> So you need a wrapper like :
>
> >>> def stdin_iterator() :
>
> ...     while(True) :
> ...         try : yield raw_input()
> ...         except EOFError : return
> ...
>
> >>> f = stdin_iterator()
>
> Do you really need to iterate on the file this way instead of using the
> straightforward readline method ?
>
> >>> import sys
> >>> l=sys.stdin.readline()
> >>> while(l) :
>
> ...     print l,
> ...     l=sys.stdin.readline()
>
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You are correct, I looked back to a program I wrote a while ago where
I ran into this issue. Here is the actual solution I used:

if f.isatty():
    f = iter(f.readline,"")