buffering choking sys.stdin.readlines() ?

[cshirky]

Newbie question:

I'm trying to turn a large XML file (~7G compressed) into a YAML file,
and my program seems to be buffering the input.

IOtest.py is just

  import sys
  for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
    print line

but when I run

$ gzcat bigXMLfile.gz | IOtest.py

but it hangs then dies.

The goal of the program is to build a YAML file with print statements,
rather than building a gigantic nested dictionary, but I am obviously
doing something wrong in passing input through without buffering. Any
advice gratefully fielded.

-clay