read from standard input

[Chris Rebert]

> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Siva B <sivaits4u at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I wrote a program to read some data through standard input and write in
>> > a
>> > file.
>> > the following code works fine in linux.
>> > but its giving ArgumentError in windows.
>>
>> There's no such error in Python; you're thinking of Ruby.
>> Unless you give the /actual/ error (with message) and full traceback,
>> there's not much we can do to help you besides just guess.
>>
>> <snip>
>> > file=open('data.txt','w')
>>
>> Don't use `file` as a variable name, you're shadowing the built-in type.
>>
>> > and what is the command in windows for EOF (like Cntrl D in linux)
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/yggsby3
>> The *very first result* has the answer in its 6th sentence.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Siva B <sivaits4u at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> Thanks for you reply.
> The error log is here for my above program in windows:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\t1.py", line 3, in <module>
>     orig_source = sys.stdin.read()
> AttributeError: read

Okay, that Shouldn't Be Happening (tm). Add the following before line
3 and post the output:

print type(sys.stdin), sys.stdin

And while we're at it, what version of Python are your running?

Cheers,
Chris
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