sys.stdin on windows

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:16:03 -0300, zugnush at gmail.com <zugnush at gmail.com>  
escribi�:

> I often grep particular patterns out of large logfiles and then
> pipeline the output to sort and uniq -c
> I thought today to knock up a script to do the counting in a python
> dict.
>
> This seems work in linux
>
> $ cat count.py
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import sys
> from collections import defaultdict
> accumulator=defaultdict(int)
> for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
>     accumulator[line.strip()]+=1
> print "contents,count"
> for key in accumulator.keys():
>     print key,",",accumulator[key]
>
> $ cat test | ./count.py
> contents,count
>  , 1
> 23 , 1
> 1 , 1
> 3 , 2
> 2 , 2
> 5 , 3
>
> When I try to run the same thing on windows I get
> IOError: [Error 9] Bad file descriptor
>
> How can I make this more windows friendly?

Explicitely invoking the interpreter worked for me. That is, these two  
commands worked fine:

type test.txt | python count.py
python count.py < test.txt

But I cannot explain *why* it doesn't work the other way.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina