Re: Non blocking read from stdin on windows.

2004-12-25 Thread Noam Raphael
You can always have a thread which continually reads stdin and stores it in a string, or better, in a cStringIO.StringIO object. Then in the main thread, you can check whether something new has arrived. This, of course will work on all platforms. I hope this helped a bit, Noam -- http://mail.py

Non blocking read from stdin on windows.

2004-12-25 Thread barr
Hi Can any one help. I am trying to write a python scipt that takes input as args and/or as piped input ( possibly the output of another program). I want to read stdin ( the piped in stuuff ) whcih might be empty without the script blocking if it is empty. I understand it is possible to do unde