Quoting Max Noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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
Is this sufficient? I tried to write a test program to get that behaviour.. ----- produce.py ----- #!/usr/bin/python import time for i in xrange(10): time.sleep(1) print i ----- read.py ----- #!/usr/bin/python import sys for line in sys.stdin: print line.strip() -------------------- If I do: $ ./produce.py | ./read.py I get nothing for ten seconds, then I get the numbers 0 through 9, one per line. What am I missing? -- John. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
