Python raw_input following sys.stdin.read() throws EOFError

Question

a similar question has been asked before, but the answers suggested a workaround which is not applicable to my situation.

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Answer 1

Have you tried this:

message = sys.stdin.read()
sys.stdin = open('/dev/tty')
selected_index = raw_input('Which URL to open?')

This works on Linux; maybe it will work for OSX too.

Answer 2

Try to reset STDIN using sys.stdin.seek(0)

Reference: http://docs.python.org/library/fileinput.html