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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:52:16 +1100
Subject: Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Can you speak more about how you intend your program to be used? The
> above request is incoherent, and I suspect you've made a design mistake.

There are times when this is correct behaviour - like asking for
passwords (SSH and sudo work like this).

ChrisA