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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:00:45 -0700
Subject: Re: Question About Command line arguments
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Tim Chase
<python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 06/10/2011 12:58 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>
>> How do I write my script so it picks up argument from the
>> output of commands that pipe input into my script?
>
> You can check
>
> =A0if os.isatty(sys.stdin): =A0# <-- this check

Any reason for that over sys.stdin.isatty()?