I'm not a Python expert by any means, but you're describing the classic symptoms of buffering. There is a '-u' command line switch for python to turn off buffering but that does not affect file iterators. See http://www.hmug.org/man/1/python.html for instance.
Tom Eastman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not new to Python, but I didn't realise that sys.stdin could be called > as an iterator, very cool! > > However, when I use the following idiom: > > for line in sys.stdin: > doSomethingWith(line) Guess what the suggested work-around on the man page was? Use sys.stdin.readline() in a "while 1:" loop, as you have below: > > while True: > line = sys.stdin.readline() > if line == '': break > doSomethingWith(line) David -- David Trudgett http://www.zeta.org.au/~wpower/ Reality is 20% real and 80% made up stuff in your head. But I'm not sure about the 20%. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
