[issue2571] can cmd.py's API/docs for the use of an alternate stdin be improved?

2014-06-28 Thread Jack Andrews
Jack Andrews added the comment: I'm no longer working on this, but IIRC, my patch is not necessary and there is no deficiency. Ta, Jack On Saturday, June 28, 2014, Mark Lawrence rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: Mark Lawrence added the comment: Does somebody want to propose a patch to take

[issue2571] can cmd.py's API/docs for the use of an alternate stdin be improved?

2011-04-14 Thread Jack Andrews
Jack Andrews effb...@gmail.com added the comment: hi guys, this makes Cmd a bit more useful. my use case is talking to pdb via pipe (ie. subprocess module). pdb doesn't behave very well if stdin is not a tty

[issue2571] can cmd.py's API/docs for the use of an alternate stdin be improved?

2011-04-14 Thread Jack Andrews
Jack Andrews effb...@gmail.com added the comment: Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: Jack, several questions. Are you saying that when stdin is a pipe and not a tty, pdb works better with use_rawinput set False? yes. well, at least i thought so. today, pdb works fine