now supports stdin for command line arguments

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/wikiquery b/wikiquery
index 10356dd..7d1ed5f 100755
--- a/wikiquery
+++ b/wikiquery
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env python
 
+import shlex
 import optparse
 import sys
 import wikipedia
 
 from functools import partial
 
-version = "0.0.2"
+version = "0.1.0"
 
 def stringify(o):
 	if isinstance(o, list):
@@ -22,13 +23,18 @@ def display(o):
 	print stringify(o)
 	
 def parse_args():
+	args = sys.argv[1:]
+
+	if not args:
+		args = sys.stdin.read().splitlines()
+
 	parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage="!wiki <topic> [--search|--url]")
 
 	parser.add_option("--search", action="store_true")
 	parser.add_option("--url", action="store_true")
 	parser.add_option("-v", "--version", action="store_true")
 
-	return parser.parse_args()
+	return parser.parse_args(args)
 
 def main():
 	options, args = parse_args()