Re: Reading twice from STDIN

On 12/1/11, janedenone <janedenone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I would like to read from a pipe, parse the input and ask the user
what to do next:

message = sys.stdin.read()
# message is parsed and URLs are printed as a list to choose from...
selected_index = raw_input('Which URL to open?')

Calling raw_input() always raises in an EOFError. I tried reopening
and resetting sys.stdin, but nothing worked (at least on OX X 10.7,
see


You can read piped data from sys.stdin normally. Then if you want
something from the user, at least on most *ix's, you would open
/dev/tty and get user input from there. 'Not sure about OS/X.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8034595/python-raw-input-following-sys-stdin-read-throws-eoferror).

I am surprised to find that a seemingly trivial task cannot be
accomplished with Python 2.7 on a current Mac. Or am I missing
something simple?

- Jan
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