named pipe input

[Donn Cave]

In article <3gIRe.6091$O6.328317 at news3.tin.it>,
 "max(01)*" <max2 at fisso.casa> wrote:

> i have some problems understanding following behaviour.
> 
> consider this:

> $ cat file_input_3.pl
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> open MIAPIPE, "una_pipe";
> 
> while ($riga = <MIAPIPE>)
...

> $ cat file_input_3.py
> #!/usr/bin/python
> 
> import sys
> 
> MIAPIPE = open("una_pipe", "r")
> 
> for riga in MIAPIPE:

...
> BUT if i try to do the same with the python code, something different 
> happens: i have to type ALL the lines on console #2 and complete the cat 
> command (ctrl-d) before seeing the lines echoed on console #1.


Seems to me something like this came up here
not long ago.  It turns out that

  for line in file:

doesn't do the same thing as Perl's

   while ($line = <file>)

If you use file.readline() instead (in a loop,
of course, I think you'll get the data one line
at a time, but "in file" apparently reads the
whole file first.  That's what I vaguely remember,
I don't use it myself.

   Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu