[Tutor] reading from stdin

[Nick Lunt]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 14:14 -0800, Sean Perry wrote:

> 
> 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.

Thanks Sean, I agree with you on both accounts there.

Cheers
Nick .