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Non blocking read from stdin on windows.

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 under unix with the select call. Can some
one please explain how to do this in windows.

thanks in advance.

Barr

Jul 18 '05 #1
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You can always have a thread which continually reads stdin and stores it
in a string, or better, in a cStringIO.Strin gIO 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
Jul 18 '05 #2

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