Hi Hugo, many thanks for pointing that out. It all helps :)
Thanks again, Nick . On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 17:35 -0600, Hugo GonzÃlez Monteverde wrote: > Everypne else has answered pretty muh about this. I just want to add > that if you want to read noncanonically (less thana line ending in "\n" > you'll have to do it char by char =( AFAIK, there's no way to redefine a > separator por readlines() (other than \n..) > > Hugo > > Nick Lunt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I've been pondering how to get python to read from a pipe outside of > > itself, sort of. > > > > For example I tried a simple python prog to do a grep, eg > > > > # ps -e | myprog.py cron > > > > would give this output > > > > 3778 ? 00:00:00 crond > > > > same as > > # ps -e | grep cron > > > > The way I did this was to use sys.stdin.readlines() to get the output > > from the pipe. > > > > Here is the program: > > > > [code] > > import sys, glob > > args = sys.stdin.readlines() # found on the net > > pat = sys.argv[1] > > for i in args: > > if (i.find(pat) != -1): > > print i, > > [/code] > > > > My question is am I getting the output from the pipe in the correct > > way ? The way Im doing it works (so far) but should I be doing it > > another way ? > > > > Many thanks > > Nick . > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
