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How do I read from standard input (stdin)?

In Python, how can we find out the command line arguments that were provided for a script, and process them? Related background reading: What does "sys.argv[1]" mean? (What is sys.argv, and ...

Is it possible to run first the program then wait for the input of the user in command line. e.g. Run... Process... Input from the user(in command line form)... Process...

I am implementing a small command line tool in python that needs to ask the user a couple of questions. I use raw_input('Are you male or female?') all the time. Now I would like to be able to deal ...

I'm trying to compare a input that the user receives that checks if the input is actually a number. Here's what I have so far: numstring = input("Choose a number between 1 and 10") and then to ...

I wrote a function in Python which prompts the user to give two numbers and adds them. It also prompts the user to enter a city and prints it. For some reason, when I run it in a shell, I get "name is ...

I have code that manipulates data of a file that I currently have hard-coded in the script. I want to be able to prompt the user to chose the input file rather than having to hard-code it. Here is ...

please help me... "Read in two numbers from user input without a prompt, add them, and print the result. Hint: Use int() to convert the numbers to integers. Note: These activities may test code ...

I have the following code, which is supposed to ask the user 2 file names. I get an error with the input() in the second function but not in the first, I don't understand... Here is the error : ...

I have a file named myadd.py that contains only the following function: def myadd(a,b): return a+b How can I run it on Linux terminal? I am looking for something easy like this: python myadd 2,3 ...

In Java, one can write something like this: Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in); x = scan.nextInt(); y = scan.nextDouble(); etc. What is the equivalent of this in Python 3? The input is a list of ...

I have an interact() function which I need to ask for a file. I already have a function load_maze(filename) which loads my text document in python. How do i get interact() to ask for my filename in ...

Ok so I have a function I've made called DrawGraph. This one function is pretty much my whole program. DrawGraph(x, y, xv, yv, s) At the start of the program I would like to have to type in this ...

I just want to use os.system("dir") and also be able to save the text outputted to a variable. I tried using sys.stdout.read() but running sys.stdout.readable() returns False. Do you know how I can ...

How can I receive input from the terminal in Python? I am using Python to interface with another program which generates output from user input. I am using subprocess.Popen() to input to the program, ...