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		dalke on Sept 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Pytho... Should PyPI kick my project off because it don't support MS Windows? My package uses C and Cython extensions. While I support macOS and Linux-based OSes, I don't know how to develop on or support MS Windows. I've tried to be careful about the ILP32 vs LP64 differences, but I suspect there's going to be many places where I missed up. I also use "/dev/stdin" to work-around my use of a third-party library that has no way to read from stdin. As far as I can tell, there's no equivalent in Windows, so I'll have to raise an exception for that case, and modify my tests cases.

ciupicri on Sept 7, 2022 [–]

Can't you use "CON" instead of "/dev/stdin" on Windows?

dalke on Sept 7, 2022 | [–]

I asked that question nearly 11 years ago on StackOverflow, at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7395157/windows-equivale... . ;)

Quoting the best comment, "echo test | type CON or echo test | type CONIN$ will read from the console, not from stdin."

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