On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > random...@fastmail.us writes: > >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013, at 16:52, Chris Angelico wrote: >> > There are times when this is correct behaviour - like asking for >> > passwords (SSH and sudo work like this). >> >> Less (or pagers generally, or an interactive text editor that allows >> creating a file from standard input) would be another example of a >> program where it makes sense to do this. > > You're both describing programs that read the console, which is not what > the OP was asking for. The OP was asking about re-opening stdin after > reaching EOF, which is incoherent as far as I understand it. > > I'm still waiting for the OP to clarify what they want to do.
The OP did say "tty" and mentioned getpass. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list