Reading from linux command line with Python

Question

Is there a way to read data that is coming into the command-line, straight into another Python script for execution?

Answer 1

You need to read stdin from the python script.

import sys

data = sys.stdin.read()
print 'Data from stdin -', data

Sample run -

$ date | python test.py
Data from stdin - Wed Jun 17 11:59:43 PDT 2015