Thanks to everyone who helped me with this. It's certainly given me something to think about :)
Cheers Nick . On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 23:13 -0600, David Rock wrote: > * Nick Lunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-01 22:23]: > > 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. > > For another approach to this, I like to use the fileinput module. In the > case of the original example of mimicing grep, it allows you to easily > handle both a list of files passed to the command or use it as a pipe. > The default action if there are no files given is to use stdin. > > http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/module-fileinput.html > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
