On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > (line for line in sys.stdin) > > and sys.stdin are equivalent as are > > [v for v in items] > > and list(items) > > So > > print list(islice(sys.stdin, 5))
I was being a little verbose ... But I like your simplification :) cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list