On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 14:14 -0800, Sean Perry wrote: > > unless you want the output for some other reason, a more idiomatic way > is: > > for line in sys.stdin.readlines(): > # handle the line > > I tend to use xreadlines() which does not read the entire input at once. > For stdin this make sense, you have no idea how much data will be > piped in.
Thanks Sean, I agree with you on both accounts there. Cheers Nick . _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor