cage wrote: > I want to use a program that has a 'pipe' mode, in which you can use > stdin to send commands to the program. I found out that, when in pipe > mode and you are using the keyboard as input source you can do Ctrl-D to > 'signal' the program that you have finished typing your command. The > program parses and then performs the command, and it doesn't quit. It > quits after 'Quit\n' + Ctrl-D > Now I want a python script to provide the input, how do i do that? I now > use popen to be able to write to the program's stdin (p_stdin) > I noticed that when i do a p_stdin.close() it acts as a 'ctrl-d' in that > the program recognizes the signal to process the command, but then I > cannot use p_stdin anymore to do p_stdin.write(...)
You might want to check the pty module in the Standard Library, and/or Pexpect (http://pexpect.sf.net/) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
