[Python-Dev] Incorrect documentation of the raw_input built-in function (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Thu Jan 24 18:44:26 CET 2008
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:36:51PM -0500, Isaac Morland wrote:
What about an option (maybe even a default) to send the prompt to stdin?
The Postgres command line interface psql appears to do this: $ psql 2>&1 >/dev/null Password: $ (I typed my password and then I quit by typing ^D; if I type the wrong password, it looks the same on screen but it quits right away without waiting for ^D) I think ssh also does this when it needs to prompt for a password.
One cannot write to stdin:
sys.stdin.write("1\n") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
But it is possible to explicitly open the current console for reading and writing and do I/O regardless of stdin/stdout/stderr redirects:
tty = open("/dev/tty", "r+") tty.write("1\n") 1 line = tty.readline() DDD line 'DDD\n'
Oleg.
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