python - How to finish sys.stdin.readlines() input?

Question

This might be a silly question, but as I can't find an answer, I have to ask it.

In interactive python I want to process a message which i get with:

>>> message = sys.stdin.readlines()

Everything works fine, but... how to stop it from getting an input and make it save into message variable? Stopping with ctrl+c stops whole process so there is no input to be saved anywhere. I guess there's an easy answer I just can't find...

Answer 1

For unix based system :

Hello, you can tape : Ctrld

Ctrld closes the standard input (stdin) by sending EOF.

Example :

>>> import sys
>>> message = sys.stdin.readlines()
Hello
World
My
Name
Is
James
Bond
# <ctrl-d> EOF sent
>>> print message
['Hello
', 'World
', 'My
', 'Name
', 'Is
', 'James
', 'Bond
']

For Windows :

To send EOF on Windows, you can replace Ctrld by Ctrlz