Take input from stdin in Python

The sys module in python helps us to access the variables maintained by the interpreter. It also provides functions to interact with the interpreter. To use sys in Python, we firstly import sys

import sys

There are a number of ways in which we can take input from stdin in Python.

sys.stdin

input()

fileinput.input()

Using sys.stdin: sys.stdin can be used to get input from the command line directly. It used is for standard input. It internally calls the input() method. It, also, automatically adds ‘\n’ after each sentence.

Example:

import sys 

  

  

for line in sys.stdin: 

    if 'q' == line.rstrip(): 

        break

    print(f'Input : {line}') 

  

print("Exit") 

Output

Using input(): input() can be used to take input from the user while executing the program and also in the middle of the execution.

Example:

# this accepts the user's input  

# and stores in inp 

inp = input("Type anything") 

  

# prints inp 

print(inp) 

Output:

Using fileinput.input(): If we want to read more that one file at a time, we use fileinput.input() . There are two ways to use fileinput.input(). To use this method, first we need to import fileinput.

1st method :

Here, we pass the name of the files as a tuple in the “files” agrument. Then we loop over each file to read it.

with fileinput.input(files = ('sample.txt', 'no.txt')) as f: 

    for line in f: 

        print(line) 

2nd method :

Here, we pass the file name a sys argument in the command line.

import fileinput  

for f in fileinput.input(): 

    print(f)