> wget -i - > it doesn't do anything, just waits for your input. Your applications > probably should behave the same. Okay, that works for me.
> Paddy wrote: > > ls *.a | ./fui.py -f - *.b > It doesn't seem to me that -f parameter is necessary for your > application. Yes and no, I have another option that needs to take a variable number of args. > It should treat all the arguments as the filenames, > shouldn't it? And when one of the filenames is -, just try to read > stdin. I have tested getopt and it strips the lone '-' out. I can get it from sys.argv, but then I am really doing more parsing than I want to. It's a tricky job this. I think I will look in sys.argv, if I find a single dash the I will replace that element in the list with whatever comes from stdin. Then I'll pass all of it to getopt. Thanks for the help. \d -- When you allow legends to rule your life, your world is based on fiction -- Segio Aragones (Groo the Wanderer Number 99) Fonty Python and other dev news at: http://otherwiseingle.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
