Read input from redirected stdin with python

Question

I have this loop that reads lines from stdin until a newline is entered, however, this only works from typing in the input. How do I get the program to read lines from a redirec

Answer 1

As others have mentioned, probably your condition line == '\n' never holds true. The proper solution would be to use a loop like:

for line in sys.stdin:
  stripped = line.strip()
  if not stripped: break
  lines.append(stripped)