* Dennis Lee Bieber (Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:34:32 -0700) > On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:50:53 +0100, Thorsten Kampe > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > That article mentions a pipe - and has nothing to do with input or > > output redirection... > > > And what is a pipe, at least on Windows command lines, if not a > linked pair of I/O redirection? First program output redirected to <>, > second program input redirected from <> (where <> represents some > shared data stream which could possibly be implemented by creating a > scratch file in, say %TEMP%\apipe.dat)
In the case of redirection you get the input from or output to a file. In the case of a pipe you don't have files involved. Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
