Python command line 'file input stream'

Question

I\'m fairly new to python coming from C/C++, I was wondering how I would get my \'main.py\' to reconize/use the imput given from a bash shell as:

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Answer 1

Read from sys.stdin:

import sys
sys.stdin.read()

Being a file-like object, you can use its reading functions or simply iterate over the input lines:

for line in sys.stdin:
    print line