how to calculate the size of sys.stdin?

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Graham Guttocks <graham_guttocks at yahoo.co.nz>:

| Is there a way to calculate the size (in bytes) of sys.stdin?  I tried
| to use the "stat" module to accomplish this, but os.stat() seems to
| only accept the name of a file.  (i.e, the following doesn't work):
|
| import os,stat
| size = os.stat(sys.stdin.read())[stat.ST_SIZE]

os.fstat(sys.stdin.fileno())

This makes sense only when stdin happens to be a disk file, of course.

I don't understand why you would try sys.stdin.read() in the above
example, so I don't know if this helps or not, but you'll know if
you try it.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu