How do I check if stdin has some data?

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In Python, how do you check if sys.stdin has data or not?

I found that os.isatty(0) can not only check if stdin is connected to a TTY device, but also if there is data available.

But if someone uses code such as

sys.stdin = cStringIO.StringIO("ddd")

and after that uses os.isatty(0), it still returns True. What do I need to do to check if stdin has data?

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7 Answers

Saw a lot of answers above, in which almost all the answers required either sys, select, os, etc. However, I got a very simple idea about how continuously to take input from stdin if it has data. We can use try, except block to do so. as,

while(1):
  try:
    inp = input()
  except:
     break

The above loop will run and we are checking for input continuously and storing the input in variable "inp", if there is no input in the stdin then try will throw an error however in except block break statement is present, so the while loop will be terminated

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I found a way to use a future from concurrent.futures library. This is a gui program that will allow you to scroll and hit the wait button when you are still waiting for STDIN. Whenever the program sees it has a line of information from STDIN then it will print it in the multi-line box. But it does not lock the script lock out the user from the gui interface why it is checking stdin for a new line. (Please note I tested this in python 3.10.5)

enter code here

import concurrent.futures
import PySimpleGUI as sg
import sys

def readSTDIN():
    return sys.stdin.readline()

window = sg.Window("Test Window", [[sg.Multiline('', key="MULTI", size=(40, 10))],
                                   [sg.B("QUIT", bind_return_key=True, focus=True),
                                    sg.B("Wait")]], finalize=True, keep_on_top=True)
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
    window["MULTI"].print(f"ARG={arg}")
with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor() as pool:
    futureResult = pool.submit(readSTDIN)
    while True:
        event, values = window.read(timeout=500)
        if event != "__TIMEOUT__":
            window['MULTI'].print(f"Received event:{event}")
        if event in ('QUIT', sg.WIN_CLOSED):
            print("Quit was pressed")
            window.close()
            break
        if futureResult.done(): # flag that the "future" task has a value ready;
                                #therefore process the line from STDIN
            x = futureResult.result()
            window["MULTI"].print(f"STDIN:{x}")
            futureResult = pool.submit(readSTDIN) #add a future for next line of STDIN
user_194174360

Using built in modules this can be achieved with following code as Gregg gave already the idea:

import fileinput
isStdin = True
for line in fileinput.input:
    # check if it is not stdin
    if not fileinput.isstdin():
        isStdin = False
        break
    # continue to read stdin
    print(line)
fileinput.close()
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