On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 22:20 +0000, Max Noel wrote: > I don't think you are. You're using readlines(), which means your > program won't execute until ps terminates. > UNIX philosophy is to have programs start acting as soon as possible > -- in that case, as soon as the first line is available. You should be > reading sys.stdin as an iterator (same thing you'd do for a file): > > import sys > for line in sys.stdin: > # do stuff with that line of input
Aha, that makes sense. Thanks very much. Nick . _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
