Dmitry Anikin wrote: > I want to read stdin in chunks of fixed size until EOF > I want to be able (also) to supply data interactively in console > window and then to hit Ctrl+Z when finished
[snip fighting with windows] > Read at most size bytes from the file (less if the read hits EOF before > obtaining size bytes). > According to that, stdin.read(3), when supplied with "12^Z" should return > immediately > with two-character string instead of waiting for third character after EOF. On windows EOF is recognized only in the beginning of a line. That is how almost all console applications work on windows. So you have to use either .readline() method or .read(1) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
