Odd problem with I/O redirection under Windows

[Peter]

Hello!

I just wrote a Python program that starts out with

	text = sys.stdin.readlines()

This behaves itself fine when I run the program interactively and type 
the input manually. However when I do something like:

	C:\> myscript < somefile.txt

I get:

	Traceback (most recent call last):
	  File "C:\home\prog\Python\myscript.py", line 30, in ?
	    text = sys.stdin.readlines()
	IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

I'm using the "standard" Python v2.2 download for Windows.

Curiously when I try running the very same program using Cygwin's python 
v2.2 in a bash shell on the same machine it works fine. Thus I'm 
thinking this might have something to do with how the Windows Python is 
handling the console. I'm running Win2k if that matters.

Any thoughts?

Peter