Reading from stdin

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Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Colin> However, I want the python script to print out the numbers as it
>     Colin> gets them, since there could be hours/days between numbers - not
>     Colin> a very efficient C program :). Actually, I would like to
>     Colin> read-a-line/ print-a-line/ read-a-line/etc
> 
>     Colin> I have tried things like 'sys.stdin.read*' with no success.
> 
> Have you tried this?
> 
>     import sys
>     for line in sys.stdin:
>         print line.strip()

That's block buffered. More details here:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/readline/python

Pádraig.