Can't get sys.stdin.readlines() to work

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-01-31, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> tinnews at isbd.co.uk wrote:
>> I'm trying to read some data from standard input, what I'm actually
>> trying to do is process some date pasted in using the mouse cut and
>> paste on a Linux box (xubuntu 9.10) in a terminal window.
>> 
>> First attempts failed so I'm now trying the trivial:-
>> 
>>     import sys
>>     data = sys.stdin.readlines()
>>     print "Counted", len(data), "lines."
>> 
>> 
>> When I run this and try to paste something into the terminal window I
>> get the following errors:-
>> 
>>     /home/chris/bin/m2r.py: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `('
>>     /home/chris/bin/m2r.py: line 2: `data = sys.stdin.readlines()'
>> 
>> 
>> It does exactly the same if I try:-
>> 
>>     cat | m2r.py
>> 
>> and then paste something into the window.
>> 
>> 
>> So - what on earth am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> 
> Trying to run Python scripts with /bin/sh, probably.

Yup.  I can't count the number of times I've run ImageMagick's
"import" program unintentionally...

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