Arch Linux

the_isz

Member

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 280

[Python] Reading from stdin first, then use curses

Hi all,

I wrote a replacement for urlview to properly extract URLs from emails. You can
find the first draft here:

  https://github.com/the-isz/pyurlview

When I call it with an email file passed to the '-f' argument, it does pretty
much what I want already. However, I intend to use it in mutt, which pipes the
message to the program like so:

macro pager \cu <pipe-entry>'pyurlview.py'<enter> 'Follow links with pyurlview'

The problem is rather obvious but - unfortunately - not so easy to solve:

• The program reads the mail from stdin

• The terminal in which it runs is a pseudo-terminal (pipe)

• curses is not able to accept user input from the pseudo-terminal

The question is:

How do I read from stdin first and afterwards allow curses to read user input?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,

Iszzy