How to read user input until EOF in python?

Question

I came across this problem in UVa OJ. 272-Text Quotes

Well, the problem is quite trivial. But the thing is I am not able to read the input. The input is provided in

Answer 1

You can use sys module:

import sys

complete_input = sys.stdin.read()

sys.stdin is a file like object that you can treat like a Python File object.

From the documentation:

Help on built-in function read:

read(size=-1, /) method of _io.TextIOWrapper instance Read at most n characters from stream.

Read from underlying buffer until we have n characters or we hit EOF.
If n is negative or omitted, read until EOF.