import sys
for line in sys.stdin:
print(line)
The code above could be modified to accomplish a number of simple tasks, such as splitting each line by white space and only printing the first element (as an alternative to awk).
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Read from stdin in Python
Many unix command line utilities take input from standard input and write to standard output. This convention allows multiple commands to be piped together. Reading from standard input in python provides an easy way to build new utilities:
The code above could be modified to accomplish a number of simple tasks, such as splitting each line by white space and only printing the first element (as an alternative to awk).
The code above could be modified to accomplish a number of simple tasks, such as splitting each line by white space and only printing the first element (as an alternative to awk).
