I have a very simple program from the first chapter of a book on python 3 (I'm a novice). I called the program tmp.py and the data input file is sum.dat (just a list of numbers, 1 per line). When I type into my command shell "tmp.py < sum.dat" I get an error from "line=input()" -- that's line 7 from the code below. The exact error message is: RuntimeError: input(): lost sys.stdin.
print("Type integers, each followed by Enter; or ^D or ^Z to finish") total=0 count=0 while True: try: line=input() if line: number=int(line) total += number count += 1 print("number =",number) except ValueError as err: print(err) continue except EOFError: break if count: print("count =", count, "total =", total, "mean =", total/ count) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list