Pipe output from shell command to a python script
python, unix
Solution
You need to read from stdin to retrieve the data in the python script e.g.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
def hello(variable):
print variable
data = sys.stdin.read()
hello(data)
If all you want to do here is grab some data from a mysql database and then manipulate it with Python I would skip piping it into the script and just use the Python MySql module to do the SQL query.
Problem
I want to run a `mysql` command and set the output of that to be a variable in my python script. Here is the shell command I'm trying to run: ``` $ mysql my_database --html -e "select * from limbs" | ./script.py ``` Here is the python script: ``` #!/usr/bin/env python import sys def hello(variable): print variable ``` How would I accept the variable in the python script and have it print the output?