[Tutor] reading from stdin

[Sean Perry]

Nick Lunt wrote:
> The way I did this was to use sys.stdin.readlines() to get the output
> from the pipe.
> 
> Here is the program:
> 
> [code]
> import sys, glob
> args = sys.stdin.readlines() # found on the net
> pat = sys.argv[1]
> for i in args:
>         if (i.find(pat) != -1):
>                 print i,
> [/code]
> 
> My question is am I getting the output from the pipe in the correct
> way ? The way Im doing it works (so far) but should I be doing it
> another way ?
> 

unless you want the output for some other reason, a more idiomatic way
is:

for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
     # handle the line

I tend to use xreadlines() which does not read the entire input at once. 
  For stdin this make sense, you have no idea how much data will be 
piped in.