This may be a dumb question but I'm confused.
using command line syntax pipe like this:
cat somefile | pyscript
In my pyscript I can simply do
buffer = sys.stdin.read( )
to get all of whatever cat sends.
However, using syntax like this:
pyscript < somefile
I'm not sure. Does this send to stdin as well?
And.. will it work on both unix and windows?
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David Bear wrote: This may be a dumb question but I'm confused.
using command line syntax pipe like this:
cat somefile | pyscript
In my pyscript I can simply do
buffer = sys.stdin.read( )
to get all of whatever cat sends.
Correct. But this uses a "cat" process to very little effect.
However, using syntax like this:
pyscript < somefile
I'm not sure. Does this send to stdin as well?
Yes. Now standard input is the content of the named file, where in the
first case it was the output of the preceding process in the pipe.
The pipe case is much more useful where you are actually transforming
information rather than just using it directly, such as
sort somefile | pyscript
Since "cat" doesn't do any transformation at all, using file redirection
as in your second example is generally better practice than your first
example.
And.. will it work on both unix and windows?
Reasonably well, yes, though (at least) some Windows implementations
will use intermediate files rather than in-memory buffers to implement
the pipes, so you could end up getting less parallelism than you
anticipate.
regards
Steve
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