On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
> MK wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> i am using this code to send an "cat > ThisIsMyUrl" with popen.
>> Of cos cat now waits for the CTRL+D command. How can i send this command ?
>
> Wouldn't it be better if you directly opened the "ThisIsMyUrl" file and
> wrote the text into it rather than rely on shelling out for this?
>
> [..]
>
> --
> ~noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in/
Agreed. Something like this perhaps?
import sys
def getFileFromUser():
f = open('ThisIsMyUrl', 'w')
while True:
s = sys.stdin.readline()
if len(s) == 0:
break # empty string denotes EOF
f.write(s)
f.close()
Seems to work on my Mac.
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Walker Hale <walker.hale...@gmail.com>
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