On 23 Sep, 18:24, Damjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to create a program that reads input from stdio that can prompt > > a user for input while doing so without getting into problems. > ... > > The trick (which works on Linux for sure) is to open /dev/tty and ask > question/get input on/from it. > ... > > I'm not usre for other *nix-es, and on Windows this will surelly not work > -- > damjan
Thanks, it worked just fine on my Gnu/Linux machine, but I'd really like it to be independent of OS. Any one else got some idea - or a windows version of the same? /Per -- PS: for the record: ***>cat replace3.py && echo "---" && cat input.txt | python replace3.py from sys import stdin, stdout def censor(foo, bar, input): return input.replace(foo, bar) fp = open('/dev/tty', 'r+') fp.write('Remove what? ') i = fp.readline().strip() fp.write('Replace %s with what? ' %i) o = fp.readline().strip() fp.close() for line in stdin.xreadlines(): line = censor('foo', 'candy', line) line = censor('bar', 'donkey', line) line = censor('baz', 'hare rama', line) line = censor(i, o, line) stdout.write(line) --- Remove what? black Replace black with what? beige candy donkey hare rama fudonkey donkeyooba xyxxyt raboof txet beige knight -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list