IPython/terminal/console/tests/writetofile.py

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# Copyright (C) 2012 The IPython Development Team
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# Distributed under the terms of the BSD License. The full license is in
# the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
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"""
Copy data from input file to output file for testing.

Command line usage:

    python writetofile.py INPUT OUTPUT

Binary data from INPUT file is copied to OUTPUT file.
If INPUT is '-', stdin is used.

"""

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    from IPython.utils.py3compat import PY3
    (inpath, outpath) = sys.argv[1:]

    if inpath == '-':
        if PY3:
            infile = sys.stdin.buffer
        else:
            infile = sys.stdin
    else:
        infile = open(inpath, 'rb')

    open(outpath, 'w+b').write(infile.read())