From: Jonathan Paisley <jp-www@...>
Date: 2005-06-17T21:10:33+09:00
Subject: Re: stubborn program using readline

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:41:22 +0900, Wybo Dekker wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Logan Capaldo wrote:
> 
>> Theory: readline reads from STDIN correct? using rltest < rltest means
>> that STDIN gets EOF, which means STDIN is closed which means readlien
>> can't read anything from it.
> 
> No, readline should not necessarily read from STDIN. It can read from the 
> console, /dev/tty or so. 

Since you always want to readline from the terminal, try that:

  tty = open("/dev/tty","a+")
  tty.readline