On Apr 13, 3:13 am, Michael Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 7stud wrote: > > I assume all input is buffered by default, so I'm not sure how it > > explains things to say that input from sys.stdin is buffered. > > The difference with sys.stdin is that it has indeterminate length until > you signal EOF. I believe you'd get the same problem reading from, say, > a named pipe. >
Couldn't you say the same thing about a file you are iterating over? > >> I typed many lines, but lst contains only one item, as expected. Same as > >> your regular file example: the file contains many lines, but only the > >> first goes into the list. > > > Interesting example--not as I expected! But there is a difference in > > the two examples isn't there? When you iterate over a file, the whole > > file isn't put into an internal buffer first, is it? > > It is if the file is smaller than the buffer size. > How is that relevant? > >> This should be f = iter(raw_input,"") and this will end in a EOFError > >> and stop on blank line. So you need a wrapper > > > Why a wrapper? > > Because without a wrapper you'll get EOFError, while the file iterator > would ordinarily give you StopIteration. > Did you run my example? Did you get an error? I don't get an error. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
