Python User Input EOF Error Explained

[monkeywrench10]

Like from a temp file? The current reason is that the script takes in raw input (a text version of a pdf report) processes it and converts results to a csv all in one module. The part with the user input comes right at the end before output to screen.

Are you saying write the list to a temp file and then read it back in to ask the "triple duplicate" question to get around the "already used" stdin problem here?

[Bachstelze]

Right now your script reads the file from stdin. Instead, you could make it read the file directly from the disk, then you get the data and parse it in exactly the same way you do it when reading from stdin, except that you read from the disk instead.

[Arndt]

You can read from the tty instead of from stdin, like this:

f=open("/dev/tty","r+")
f.write("string")
f.readline()

There may be better ways to do it.

[Chayak]

It would help to know why you chose to pipe data into the script rather than having the script get the data. Are you going to pipe the output of other programs into it, or is that just the way you knew how to pass data to a script?

If it's not something you intend to regularly pipe into then you'd be better off passing the file name as an argument like this.

import sys

def get_file( file_name ):
    f = open( file_name, "r")
    file_buffer = f.read()
    f.close()
    return file_buffer

def your_function( buffer ):
    # your code goes here

def main():
    file_name = sys.argv[1]
    buffer = get_file( file_name )
    your_function( buffer )

main()

That way you can do this.

> myscript.py <filename>

[cgroza]

You can read from sys.stdin instead. It will act as raw_input in this case and will allow you to manipulate the input as a file.