How Do You Get Redirected Input?

Cliff Wells LogiplexSoftware at earthlink.net
Wed Jul 2 19:17:08 EDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:10, not your business wrote:
> I have a shell tool that accepts arguments on the command line. I would like
> to check if the input is being piped in.  That is,

import sys

if sys.stdin.isatty():
    print "not piped in"
else:
    print "piped in"


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