How do you read from stdin in python from a pipe which has no ending

Question

I\'ve problem to read from Standard input or pipe in python when the pipe is from a \"open\" (do not know right name) file.

I have as example pipetest.py:

Answer 1

For this to work without waiting until the stdin stream ends, you can iter on the readline. I think this is the simplest solution.

import sys
k = 0
try:
   for line in iter(sys.stdin.readline, b''):
      k = k + 1
      print line
except KeyboardInterrupt:
   sys.stdout.flush()
   pass
print k