How do I iterate over all lines of files passed on the commandline in Python?

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Published on 2009-04-03T19:15:37Z Indexed on 2010/06/13 16:52 UTC
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I usually do this in Perl:

whatever.pl

while(<>) {
    #do whatever;
}

then cat foo.txt | whatever.pl

Now, I want to do this in Python. I tried sys.stdin but I have no idea how to do as I have done in Perl. How can I read the input?

Thanks.

EDIT:

Thanks, I like every single solution.

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