How do you read from stdin?

Question

I\'m trying to do some of the code golf challenges, but they all require the input to be taken from stdin. How do I get that in Python?

Answer 1

I am pretty amazed no one had mentioned this hack so far:

python -c "import sys; set(map(sys.stdout.write,sys.stdin))"

in python2 you can drop the set() call, but it would word either way