On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:39:00PM +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > > 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
Thank you, Gora. Yes, the main problem was the need to 'explicitly close the connection by doing a logout'. I agree with point 1 too; but I read in some discussion that perhaps read() was sending request too soon, so I had placed time.sleep() at various places... illogically before sendline too. > 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. Yes, this way worked; Adding child.sendline('logout') before I did child.read() in the original script also worked. I got to check with pexpect a little more to see if I can just get the output of a command only instead of the whole session. Paramiko, is a good module to with ssh related stuff in python, but unfortunately that is not pure python, So bundling as an option gets ruled out. -- Senthil _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
