The ast.literal_eval() was used incorrectly and wouldn't properly retrieve the user option. Was causing the options to keep being listed in a loop. Removed and replaced with raw_input() being cast to an int. Works as expected now.
Fixes: 53f293c9a783 ("usertools: replace unsafe input function") Cc: andrius.sir...@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andrius Sirvys <andrius.sir...@intel.com> --- v2: Removed unnecessary comments --- usertools/dpdk-telemetry-client.py | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/usertools/dpdk-telemetry-client.py b/usertools/dpdk-telemetry-client.py index 4b0502ff9..b5b5cdcfe 100755 --- a/usertools/dpdk-telemetry-client.py +++ b/usertools/dpdk-telemetry-client.py @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ DEFAULT_FP = "/var/run/dpdk/default_client" try: - raw_input # Python 2 + raw_input # Python 2 except NameError: - raw_input = input # Python 3 + raw_input = input # Python 3 class Socket: @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def requestMetrics(self): # Requests metrics for given client def repeatedlyRequestMetrics(self, sleep_time): # Recursively requests metrics for given client print("\nPlease enter the number of times you'd like to continuously request Metrics:") - n_requests = int(ast.literal_eval(raw_input("\n:"))) + n_requests = int(raw_input("\n:")) print("\033[F") #Removes the user input from screen, cleans it up print("\033[K") for i in range(n_requests): @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def interactiveMenu(self, sleep_time): # Creates Interactive menu within the scr print("[4] Unregister client") try: - self.choice = int(ast.literal_eval(raw_input("\n:"))) + self.choice = int(raw_input("\n:")) print("\033[F") #Removes the user input for screen, cleans it up print("\033[K") if self.choice == 1: -- 2.17.1