From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:06:40 GMT
Subject: Re: StGIT cannot import properly from stdin
Message-ID: <4332C880.1060906@drzeus.cx>
In-Reply-To: <tnxr7bh188q.fsf@arm.com>

Catalin Marinas wrote:

>It looks like a problem with Python since it re-opens sys.stdin once
>it receives EOF.
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Bummer. I checked with the local Python guru here and he suggested
changing the for loop to an infinite while and f.readline().

>I was referring to the 'cache the input to memory' variant, which is a
>bit more complicated. Caching to a file is simple but do you need to
>read patches from the terminal directly?
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I don't explicitly need it, but it keeps things simple for me. I can
copy and paste the patch from my mailer without having to bother with
saving it to a temporary file.