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Reading from stdin

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Hi.

I’m trying to make a textual app that deals with data from stdin. However, if I pipe something to a textual app, it gets consumed as keystrokes. When I consume stdin first (via sys.stdin.read(), for example), the app does not process keystrokes (rather, the typed keys get superimposed onto it).

Is there a solution for this?

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ohlecommented, Sep 24, 2022

Trying to reconstruct what I did back then (I don’t really use textual anymore, sorry), it was something like

content = sys.stdin.read()
sys.stdin = open('/dev/tty', 'r')

Then you have the originally piped content in content, and re-opening makes it available for keystrokes to textual.

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AdrianoKFcommented, Sep 25, 2022

content = sys.stdin.read()
sys.stdin = open('/dev/tty', 'r')

That did the trick, thanks for the reply! 🙏🏻

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