On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:48:32 -0800, satishmlmlml wrote: > >> import sys >> for stream in (sys.stdin, sys.stdout, sys.stderr): >> print(stream.fileno()) >> >> >> io.UnsupportedOperation: fileno >> >> Is there a workaround? > > Try: > sys.stdin.buffer.fileno() > > or maybe > > sys.stdin.buffer.raw.fileno() > > In Python 3.x, sys.stdin isn't actually a "file", it's a TextIOWrapper > around a BufferedReader around a file (io.FileIO). > > TextIOWrapper is responsible for converting a stream of bytes to a stream > of (Unicode) characters. BufferedReader is responsible for buffering (like > C stdio). > A little off topic, but why not upgrade to 3.4 if you are learning python. I run 2.7, but I've read that much has improved in the 3.x series since 3.1 > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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