[Tutor] reading from stdin
Nick Lunt
nick at javacat.f2s.com
Tue Mar 1 23:28:02 CET 2005
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 11:22 +1300, jfouhy at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Quoting Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>:
>
> > for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
> > # handle the line
> >
> > I tend to use xreadlines() which does not read the entire input at once.
>
> xreadlines() these days just does 'return self', I believe. File objects are
> their own iterators; you can just do:
>
> for line in sys.stdin:
> # do stuff
>
Same as Max Noel said, must be a good idea ;)
Thankyou
Nick .
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