The Most Effective Way to Slurp All STDINs to a String

Question

I am writing an email parser for python 2.7 that will be called via sendmail using an alias, parsed using the email module, and then processed and stored in the oracle database:

From / etc / aliases:

myalias: | / my / python / script.py

I had the problem of "plundering" all stdin into a string object that I can use with the email module:

import email

# Slurp stdin and store into message
message =

msg = email.message_from_string(message)

# Do something with it
print msg['Subject']

What would be the most effective way to do this? I tried stdin.readlines (), but it gets on the list.

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Answer 1

sys.stdin.readlines() . () , sys.stdin.read().