> sys.stdin wraps a buffered reader which itself wraps a raw file reader. > >>>> sys.stdin > <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdin>' mode='r' encoding='UTF-8'> >>>> sys.stdin.buffer > <_io.BufferedReader name='<stdin>'> >>>> sys.stdin.buffer.raw > <_io.FileIO name='<stdin>' mode='rb'> > > You should read from sys.stdin.buffer unless you really need the bare > metal. >
Thank you, and just to close the loop: $ cat ~/my-input.py #!/opt/python/bin/python3 import sys print(sys.stdin.buffer.read()) $ echo hello | ~/my-input.py b'hello\n' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
