Line-by-line processing when stdin is not a tty

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-08-11, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:

>>> If you want to handle stdin a single line at a time from inside of
>>> your program, you can access it using sys.stdin.readline().
>> 
>> That doesn't have any effect on stdin buffering.
>  
> "for line in stream"-style file iteration uses an internal buffer that is 
> not affected by the -u option; stream.readline() doesnt use this 
> optimization.

You're right.  Why didn't I know that?

Using "for line in sys.stdin" does it's own buffering.

In my tests using sys.stdin.readline() worked as the OP desired either
with or without -u, either with or without cat.  IOW, "cat" isn't
buffering output on my system (or if it is, it's line-buffering).

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