A completely silly question

[Steven Bethard]

Mike Meyer wrote:
> That doesn't do what he wants, because it doesn't return until you hit
> a newline.

Are you sure that's not just an artifact of how your terminal buffers 
data for sys.stdin?

$ cat temp.py
import sys
char = sys.stdin.read(1)
while char:
     print char
     char = sys.stdin.read(1)
$ cat temp.txt
abc
def
$ python temp.py < temp.txt
a
b
c


d
e
f

Of course if the intent is to have this work with terminal input, then 
yes, sys.stdin.read(1) is probably not going to do the right thing...

Steve