On Jul 15, 11:55 pm, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I just came across this unusual situation where I'd like to modify a > > string passed to a function > > Again: Why? The normal way to do this is to create a new string and > return that. > <snip>
Yes, usually, but that won't work in this case (look at my previous post around the 'cin >> line' line). This is what I came up with: class StreamLineBuffer: def __init__(self): self.buf = "" def __rrshift__(self, stream): self.buf = stream.readline() def __str__(self): return self.buf cin = sys.stdin buf = StreamLineBuffer() cin >> buf line = str(buf) Works like a charm :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list