[Python-bugs-list] stdin and arguments (PR#78)

[guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US]

> When using python to pipe some source code like so:
> 
> cat test.py | python - foo bar
> 
> it doesn't give the arguments foo and bar too test.py but thinks
> it is another source file, resulting in a file not found error.

On what platform?  I can't reproduce this.  If my file test.py
contains "import sys; print sys.argv" it correctly prints ['-', 'foo',
'bar'].  This on Solaris.  I'm pretty sure the behavior is the same
across Unix.  On Windows, I indeed get the error you report -- but
your mention of ssh makes me doubt that you are on Windows.

> What I would like to do is pipe it over a ssh connection + a pickled/base64 
> obkject as an argument to do pseudo RPC stuf .

This should work.

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