(std)input

[Hegedus, Tamas .]

Dear All,

I am not a programmer, and I could not find out the solution of the following problem:
I would like to pipe a program output to my python script; after it receives the EOF, I would like to get input from the users.
I do not know the programmer expression of this process. Something like that: I would like to set the stdin back to the keyboard.

A stupid example:
--------------------------
$cat text_file | my.py
Reading text_file...
text_file was loaded
Enter your comment:
--------------------------

Thanks for your help,
Tamas

[Larry Bates]

You might think of this a different way.

python my.py text_file
Enter your comment:

Have the python program pick up the file from
the argument list and read its contents, then
use raw_input to prompt the user.

You can do this with something like:

import sys
try: input_file=sys.argv[1]
except:
print "No input file specified, aborting"
sys.exit(2)

fp=open(input_file, 'r')
print "Reading text_file..."
data=fp.read()
fp.close()
print "text_file was loaded"
comment=raw_input("Enter your comment")

HTH,
Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.
"Hegedus, Tamas ." <He***********@mayo.edu> wrote in message
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Dear All,

I am not a programmer, and I could not find out the solution of the following problem: I would like to pipe a program output to my python script; after it receives the EOF, I would like to get input from the users. I do not know the programmer expression of this process. Something like that: I would like to set the stdin back to the keyboard.
A stupid example:
--------------------------
$cat text_file | my.py
Reading text_file...
text_file was loaded
Enter your comment:
--------------------------

Thanks for your help,
Tamas