[Tutor] Communicating Between Programs Using Raw Inputs

[Steve Willoughby]

As always, Alan has given a lot of great advice and useful information. 
  There's just one piece at the end I would question, however:


On 14-Jun-11 16:36, Alan Gauld wrote:
 > python reader.py < `python writer.py`

Almost, but not quite.  The backticks mean the command is executed and 
the output substituted back on the command line.  The < bracket means to 
take what follows it as a file NAME (not a data stream).  So unless 
writer.py outputs a filename, you really want something like

python writer.py | python reader.py



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