New submission from Wren Turkal <w...@penguintechs.org>: I would really love to add a few params to input so that it's signature looked more like so:
def input(prompt, /, *, fin=sys.stdin, fout=sys.stdout, ferr=sys.stderr): ... This would certainly make overriding the the files in specific calls to input easier. A reasonable use case is collecting a piece over /dev/tty explicitly so that a redirected stdin could be used to pipe data into a program while overriding using /dev/tty to collect some piece of data. Here's some code illustrating what I'd like: import sys sys.stdin.close() sys.stdin = open('/dev/null', 'r') with open('/dev/tty', 'r') as f: x = input('Name? ', fin=f) print(x) FWIW, I have actually already implemented this fully (including tests). I am just trying to see what I need to do to allow release since I am work on my employer's time. In the interest of getting feedback, does the signature provided above look sane? ---------- components: IO messages: 303103 nosy: wt priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Please add argument to override stdin/out/err in the input builtin versions: Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31603> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com