File read from stdin and printed to temp file are not identicial?

[Jason Swails]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Jean Luc Truchtersheim <
jeanluc434 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to read from stdin and dump what's read to a temporary
> file. My code works for small files but as soon as I have a file that
> has, e.g., more than 300 lines, there is always one and only one line
> that is truncated compared to the input.
>
> Here is my code:
>
> #---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #! /usr/bin/env python
>
> import sys
> from tempfile import *
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>        data = []
>        f_in = NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".txt", delete=False)
>        for line in sys.stdin:
>                f_in.write(line)
>                data.append(line)
>        f_in.close
>

Does this need to be f_in.close() ?


>        f = open(f_in.name, 'rb')
>        i=0
>        for line in f:
>                if data[i] != line:
>                        print >>sys.stderr, "line
> %d:\nfile(%d):\"%s\"\narray(%d):\"%s\"" %
> (i+1, len(line), line, len(data[i]), data[i])
>                i += 1
>        sys.exit()
>
> #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I feel that I must be doing something very stupid, but I don't really
> know what.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Can anybody reproduce this behavior.
>
> Thanks a bunch for any help.
>
> Jean Luc.
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>



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Jason M. Swails
Quantum Theory Project,
University of Florida
Ph.D. Graduate Student
352-392-4032
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