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I'm trying to read in the following text from the command-line in Python 3 (copied verbatim, newlines and all):

lcbeika
rraobmlo
grmfina
ontccep
emrlin
tseiboo
edosrgd
mkoeys
eissaml
knaiefr

Using input, I can only read in the first word as once it reads the first newline it stops reading.

Is there a way I could read in them all without iteratively calling input?

+4  A: 

You can import sys and use the methods on sys.stdin for example:

text = sys.stdin.read()

or:

lines = sys.stdin.readlines()

or:

for line in sys.stdin:
    # Do something with line.
Mark Byers
A: 

if you are passing the text into your script as a file , you can use readlines()

eg

data=open("file").readlines()

or you can use fileinput

import fileinput
for line in fileinput.input():
    print line
ghostdog74
I'm reading it from the command-line, not passing the text as a file.
Beau Martínez
then use the 2nd method
ghostdog74