On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Emile van Sebille <em...@fenx.com> wrote: > Easiest would be print [ v for v in sys.stdin.readlines()[:5] ] but that > still reads the entire sys.stdin (whatever it may be...)
Here's a way of doing the same thing without consuming the entire stream (sys.stdin): #!/usr/bin/env python import sys print [v for v in list(line for line in sys.stdin)[:5]] This uses a generator expression to read from stdin, converts this to a list (only getting the first 5 items). cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
