On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:48:50 +0530 Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to use pexpect and I am failing with > pexpect.TIMEOUT for all my attempts. In order to troubleshoot, I > decided to go with simplest possible one. > > Here is my ssh to localhost: > > [21:29:14 senthil]$ssh localhost -l senthil > sent...@localhost's password: > sent...@ubuntu:~$ > > And here is my pexpect script: > > http://paste.pocoo.org/show/121788/ I am not very familiar with pexpect, but from what I remember of Expect, there are a couple of issues here: o You should be using p.expect() instead of time.sleep() o After issuing a 'fortune' command you should be expecting a shell prompt. o You should explicitly close the connection by logging out Please see http://paste.pocoo.org/show/121800/ where I have used 'ls' instead of 'fortune' as I did not have the latter installed. The pattern matches anything, i.e., whatever be the shell prompt, and child.expect also matches EOF. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
