so I have this script that bounces Python code to a program for scripting purposes and everything works fine until there's an indent in the code to be sent ...

In Python, sys.stdin is a read-only file object from which you can grab the user's input. So, if you want to test the "double" function from above, you can (should) replace sys.stdin with another file ...

↪python sendemail.py This shows the real power of Python as a utility in a chain of bash commands such as this. Writing scripts that accept input from standard input and write any data out to standard ...