On Tue, Dec 13, 2016, at 11:01, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 12/13/2016 05:39 AM, Samuel Williams wrote: > > Michael, yes. > > > > FYI, I found out why this works. Pressing Ctrl-D flushes the input > > buffer. If you do this on an empty line, it causes read(...) to return > > 0 which Ruby considers end of input for the script, but the pipe is > > not closed. > > Currently Python does not appear to support this behavior. Possibly it > could be patched to support something similar, though.
The problem is there's currently no way to differentiate "interactive mode" from "script run on a tty". You can get similar behavior with python -c "import sys;exec(sys.stdin.read())" -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
