> While I couldn't locate such a document, it makes sense when you > consider that if such a process is part of a pipeline you really don't > want the prompts being handled as input by the downstream processes. > > That's why mv and similar utilities prompt on standard error.
No, that doesn't really make sense. If you are in the middle of a pipe, what good does it do to write the prompt to stderr, yet read the user input from stdin? If you really care about processes that run in a pipe, interact with /dev/tty. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
