On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 07:55:16PM -0000, sam.z.e...@gmail.com wrote:
> Using the prospective redirect_stdin context manager, the following code
>
> ```
> with open("/dev/tty", 'r+') as file:
> with contextlib.redirect_stdin(file), contextlib.redirect_stdout(file):
> name = input('Name: ')
>
> print(name)
> ```
>
> Could be rewritten like this
>
> ```
> with open('/dev/tty', 'r+') as file:
> name = input('Name: ', infile=file, outfile=file)
>
> print(name)
> ```
Thanks for the example, but that doesn't explain the why. Why are we
redirecting IO to a tty? Assume your audience is not made up of expert
Linux sys admins who even know what a tty is :-)
(I know what a tty is, kinda, but I still don't know what the above
does.)
--
Steve
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