From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-06-24T05:13:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Global Exception Rescue

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Mat Schaffer wrote:

> Can you explain why you have STDIN.reopen(open(__FILE__)) there?
> It's really baffling me.  I can't figure out just what it's doing.
> -Mat

james had said in the original message that his 'wrapper' was doing some
things like munging STDIN - this is simply doing that: in this case STDIN is
redirected to read the file itself.  it could just as well be

   STDIN.reopen(open('alternate.stdin'))

regards.

-a
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