I had a simple question: I have a python script that generates a list of strings and what I want it to be able to pipe this output so that it can be compared to an existing text file in this form:
python myscript.py | diff test.txt -
The test.txt file in this case is just a text file that contains the words that are on a new line each. How would I got about doing this.
All text displayed by print() or sys.stdout.write() (which is used by print() too) will be piped to other command.
If you want to get data from other pipe like
ls | python myscript.py
python myscript.py < data.txt
then use input() or sys.stdin.read()