Questions: While And List Comprehension

[James Mills]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:
> Easiest would be print [ v for v in sys.stdin.readlines()[:5] ] but that
> still reads the entire sys.stdin (whatever it may be...)

Here's a way of doing the same thing without consuming the entire
stream (sys.stdin):

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
print [v for v in list(line for line in sys.stdin)[:5]]

This uses a generator expression to read from stdin, converts this to
a list (only getting the first 5 items).

cheers
James


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