confused about stdin

From: David Bear (david.bear_at_asu.edu)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:08:41 -0700

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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