I trying to figure out a way to make a python script accept data output from another process under Windows XP, but I fail miserably. I have a vague memory having read this is not possible with Python under Windows...
But googling for a clue I came across this from /Learning Python/ (Lutz & Ascher) [1] <Learning Python> import sys data = sys.stdin.readlines() print "Counted", len(data), "lines." On Unix, you could test it by doing something like: % cat countlines.py | python countlines.py Counted 3 lines. On Windows or DOS, you'd do: C:\> type countlines.py | python countlines.py Counted 3 lines. </Learning Python> So: Is it possible to pipe data under DOS/Win9x but not NT/2k/XP or is it a bug in /Learning Python/ ? I've tried about all kinds of sane and insane approaches involving sys.stdin, but they all results in IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor. [1] <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpython/chapter/ch09.html> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
