python store lines from stdin directly to list objects
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In researching the answer to this question here on stackoverflow, I've learned a lot of new things, but have so far been unable to close the deal.

My python process will be receiving one line of input via stdin, e.g.

    [{'name':'ry', 'age':28}, {'name':'bo', 'age':11}, {'name':'ed', 'age':99}]

...and I'd like to be able to store this line directly to a list object that I can then iterate over, e.g.

    for i in list:
        print i['age'], i['name']

...but I just cannot get this to work, whether I use `sys.stdin()` or the `fileinput` module. For example, even when I explicitly create a list with `x = list(stdin.readline())` it ends up making each character a separate item in the list, not parsing the text in the way I want it to. Anyway.. back to searching. (Thanks for reading.)