how to bail if stdin is empty

From: Jon Schull (schull_at_digitalgoods.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: 31 May 2004 06:35:34 -0700

I want to write a filter that will take input from files on the
command line and/or from stdin.

But if nothing has been piped to stdin, I don't want my program to
hang--I want it to do something else.

This is standard behavior for pipeable-programs I believe, but I can't
figure out how to do it...neither by reading from stdin nor by using
the fileinput module.

Thanks in advance!

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