On 2007-12-18, Jonathan Gardner wrote: >> As a test, I tried this: >> >> for line in fileinput.input(): >> print '**', line >> >> and found that it would print nothing until I hit Ctl-D, then print >> all the lines, then wait for another Ctl-D, and so on (until I pressed >> Ctl-D twice in succession to end the loop).
> There is probably a 1024 byte buffer. Try filling it up and see if you > get something before you hit CTRL-D. Thanks; I'm looking into the buffering question. > It sounds like you want to write some kind of interactive program for > the terminal. Do yourself a favor and use curses or go with a full- > blown GUI. No, I'm really interested in reading the input from files! This just came up because I was trying to test the program by giving it no filename arguments and typing sample input. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
