How to make a python script "pipeable" in bash?

See this simple echo.py:

import sysif __name__ == "__main__":    for line in sys.stdin:        sys.stderr.write("DEBUG: got line: " + line)        sys.stdout.write(line)

running:

ls | python echo.py 2>debug_output.txt | sort

output:

echo.pytest.pytest.sh

debug_output.txt content:

DEBUG: got line: echo.pyDEBUG: got line: test.pyDEBUG: got line: test.sh

I'll complement the other answers with a grep example that uses fileinput to implement the typical behaviour of UNIX tools: 1) if no arguments are specified, it reads data from stdin; 2) many files can be specified as arguments; 3) a single argument of - means stdin.

import fileinputimport reimport sysdef grep(lines, regexp):    return (line for line in lines if regexp.search(line))def main(args):    if len(args) < 1:        print("Usage: grep.py PATTERN [FILE...]", file=sys.stderr)        return 2     regexp = re.compile(args[0])    input_lines = fileinput.input(args[1:])    for output_line in grep(input_lines, regexp):        sys.stdout.write(output_line)if __name__ == '__main__':    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))

Example:

$ seq 1 20 | python grep.py "4"414

In your Python script you simply read from stdin.