[vtkusers] reading/writing standard input/output using python

[David Gobbi]

Dominik Szczerba wrote:
> Hi David's,
>
> David Gobbi wrote:
>> Hi Dominik,
>>
>> If you "import sys" then you can read from "sys.stdin" and write to 
>> "sys.stdout" but I'm not sure if that is what you are asking.
>>
>> If you are wondering if you can call "SetStream(sys.stdin)" from 
>> python, then the answer is unfortunately no.  The python wrappers do 
>> not connect 
>
> This is exactly what I want and I tried that already (doest work)...
>
>> python streams to C++ streams.  If you want, you can add this to the 
>> bugtracker as a desired feature.
>
> Will it work from C++?

Are you asking if vtkInputStream::SetStream() will work from C++?  It 
certainly should!

 - David


>> - David
>>
>>
>> David Cole wrote:
>>> What do you mean by "from python"... Do you mean more than just 
>>> accessing the built-in python functions like "print" and "input()" / 
>>> "raw_input()"...?
>>>
>>> Dominik Szczerba wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Is it at all possible to read/write stdin/stdout from python? I see 
>>>> vtkInputStream class, but it only has SetStream defined for 
>>>> std::istream...
>>>> Thanks for any hints,
>>>> Dominik
>>>
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