Python EOF Error in raw_input()

Question

I am trying to get input from the user at the command prompt. The program reads in data from a text file in the manner of \"cat text.txt | ./thescript.py\"

At the

Answer 1

This works under windows (I tested it by running python cons.py < cons.py and was able to see the prompt and not get an error about EOF):

import sys

for line in sys.stdin:
    print line

sys.stdin = open('CON', 'r')
q = raw_input('---->')

Under Unix, you'd probably just have to replace 'CON' with something in the /dev dir.