Piping data into Python on the command line - Windows 2000

[Duncan Booth]

christianzlong at yahoo.com (Christian Long) wrote in news:8847f370.0306251228.2406f86c at posting.google.com:

> I'm trying to pipe data into a python program on Windows 2000, on the
> command line.
> 
> Like this:
> dir | myProgram.py
> 
> 
This is a well known problem with Windows command line processor.
Try searching Google groups for "Python pipe win2k" and you will 
find several similar threads.

e.g.
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?threadm=asjset%24n3l%241%40news.vanderbilt.edu

Try running your command with an explicit call to the Python interpreter:

   dir | python myProgram.py

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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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