Sorry about that. Here is the full question:
I wonder if you can help me. I am using pexpect with python to access remote machines and run commands on them. I pass commands into code like so:
def cmd(self, cmd):
pp=[ "|", "]", "[", "(", ")", "$", "?", "*", ".", ":"]
expcmd=cmd
for element in pp:
expcmd=expcmd.replace(element, "\\%s" % element)
self.spawn.setecho(False)
self.spawn.sendline(cmd)
self.spawn.expect(expcmd)
self.spawn.expect(self.prompt )
return self.spawn.before
The above code is supposed to match the command, then match the prompt and then return what is in between. Since pexpect uses regular expressions to match what it sees, the command needs to have certain characters backslashed. The problem is that on some remote shells hidden characters are introduced that causes the expect statement ( self.spawn.expect(expcmd)) to timeout without matching. In perl there is a way to translate any character with an ascii value of less than 32 to "" so that all hidden characters are removed. Can this be done in python? Can this be applied to the regular _expression_ used by pexpect?
Bewildered
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1. Re: Problems wth os.stat().st_mtime on Mac (Michael Glassford)
2. Re: Help with ConfigParser (TonyHa)
3. regular expressions in the pexpect module for python (Mark Devine)
4. commands.getstatusoutput result is not command line exit
value!!! (Hari Sekhon)
5. PyCon proposals (was Re: PATCH: Speed up direct string
concatenation by 20+%!) (Aahz)
6. Re: Python/UNO/OpenOffice? (John Machin)
7. Re: Help with ConfigParser (Enrico)
8. How to coerce a list of vars into a new type? (Matthew Wilson)
9. Making posts to an ASP.NET webform. (Bernard)
10. How can I make a class that can be converted into an int?
(Matthew Wilson)
11. Sort by domain name? (js )
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From: Michael Glassford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: python-list@python.org
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:15:26 -0400
Subject: Re: Problems wth os.stat().st_mtime on Mac
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Michael Glassford schrieb:
>> Although not mentioned in the Python 2.5 News, apparently there was a
>> similar change on Mac that I'm having some problems with. On the Mac,
>> just as on Windows, os.stat().st_mtime now returns a float instead of an
>> integer.
>
> It's isn't really new; os.stat_float_times was introduced in Python 2.3.
> What changed in 2.5 is that it is now true. See
>
> http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/modules.html
Thanks, I wasn't aware of os.stat_float_times. This helps me a lot,
since I can turn off the floating point times in places until
incompatible code can be fixed.
>
>> a) Why the difference between machines?
>
> You really have to delve into OSX to answer this question. Several
> reasons are possible:
> - there is a change in the operating system implementations
Possible, I guess, although I don't know how to find out and there's
likely nothing I could do about it even if I did.
> - you are using different Python versions
Python 2.5 on both.
> - you are using different file systems
This is the first thing I thought of, but all of the drives are
formatted using "Mac OS Extended (Journalled)", which I assumed meant
they are using the same file system.
>
>> b) Why do most files on this machine have ".0", while some (generally
>> those I created myself using Python 2.5, I think) don't?
>
> Hard to tell. Maybe the software that created those files explicitly
> set a time stamp on them, and failed to use the API that supports
> subsecond resolution in setting those time stamps.
>
>> I understand how the results can be different: the os.stat() function
>> returns a posix.stat_result object, which gives back an integer value
>> for the mtime if you call __str__ or __repr__, or if you iterate on it;
>> and a float if you get the st_mtime attribute. But I would consider it a
>> bug that the results are different: a float should be returned in either
>> case.
>
> That's for backwards compatibility: You shouldn't use the tuple
> interface anymore, but use st_mtime for new code. This will always
> be a float. OTOH, the tuple interface will continue to return
> integers forever
<snip>
OK, thanks for the explanation.
Mike
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From: "TonyHa" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: python-list@python.org
Date: 2 Oct 2006 07:29:49 -0700
Subject: Re: Help with ConfigParser
Hello Peter,
Thanks for your help, and it works now!
Tony.
Peter Otten wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Question: How can I pervent ConfigParse to convert Upper case yo lower
> > case??, thanks.
>
> http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/RawConfigParser-objects.html
>
> """
> optionxform(option)
>
> Transforms the option name option as found in an input file or as passed in
> by client code to the form that should be used in the internal structures.
> The default implementation returns a lower-case version of option;
> subclasses may override this or client code can set an attribute of this
> name on instances to affect this behavior. Setting this to str(), for
> example, would make option names case sensitive.
> """"
>
> If you don't pass defaults:
>
> config = ConfigParser()
> config.optionxform = str
> # ...
>
> Or, to be on the safe side:
>
> class MyCasePreservingConfigParser(ConfigParser):
> optionxform = str
>
> config = MyCasePreservingConfigParser()
> # ...
>
> Peter
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From: "Mark Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: python-list@python.org
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:43:35 +0100
Subject: regular expressions in the pexpect module for python
Hi
I wonder if you can help me. I am using pexpect with python to access remote machines and run commands on them. I pass commands into code like so:
def cmd(self, cmd):
pp=[ "|", "]", "[", "(", ")", "$", "?", "*", ".", ":"]
expcmd=cmd
for element in pp:
expcmd=expcmd.replace(element, "\\%s" % element)
self.spawn.setecho(False)
self.spawn.sendline(cmd)
self.spawn.expect (expcmd)
self.spawn.expect(self.prompt)
return self.spawn.before
The above code is supposed to match the command, then match the prompt and then return what is in between. Since pexpect uses regular expressions to match what it sees
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From: Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: python-list@python.org
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:45:12 +0100
Subject: commands.getstatusoutput result is not command line exit value!!!
I'm running a command like
import commands
result = commands.getstatusoutput('somecommand')
print result[0]
3072
However, this exit code made no sense so I ran it manually from the
command line in bash on my linux server and it gives the exit code as
12, not this weird 3072 number.
So I tried os.system('somecommand') in the interactive python shell and
it too returned the same result for the exit code as the unix shell, 12,
but re-running the commands.getstatusoutput() with the exact same
command still gave 3072.
Is commands.getstatusoutput() broken or something?
-h
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz)
To: python-list@python.org
Date: 2 Oct 2006 07:43:09 -0700
Subject: PyCon proposals (was Re: PATCH: Speed up direct string concatenation by 20+%!)
In article < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Larry Hastings < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Steve Holden wrote:
>>
>> I think your project might make a very
>> interesting PyCon paper for people who were thinking about joining the
>> development effort but hadn't yet started.
>
>Perhaps; I've never been to PyCon, but it might be fun to give a
>presentation there. That said, it would be way more relevant if the
>patch got accepted, don'tcha think?
Not really. The principles involved are timeless, and I guarantee you a
large audience regardless of whether the patch gets accepted (provided
you specify an appropriate presentation title and summary).
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From: "John Machin" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: python-list@python.org
Date: 2 Oct 2006 07:46:53 -0700
Subject: Re: Python/UNO/OpenOffice?
olive wrote:
> ... and you have to start your py file with:
>
> import uno, sys, socket
> from com.sun.star.beans import PropertyValue
>
> ... and your start_oo_server.bat file with:
>
> @SET PYTHONPATH=C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program;C:\Program
> Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program\python-core-2.3.4\lib
> @SET PATH=C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program;C:\Program
> Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program\python-core-2.3.4\bin
Many thanks for all that, olive; I made the minimal hacks to make it
open an XLS ffile, and it worked!
I'll try to see why that worked and my previous experiment crashed
inside a DLL.
Cheers,
John
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From: "Enrico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: python-list@python.org
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:53:04 +0200
Subject: Re: Help with ConfigParser
Hi,
from the documentation:
optionxform(option)
Transforms the option name option as found in an input file or as passed in
by client code to the form that should be used in the internal structures.
The default implementation returns a lower-case version of option;
subclasses may override this or client code can set an attribute of this
name on instances to affect this behavior. Setting this to str(), for
example, would make option names case sensitive.
Bye,
Enrico
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From: Matthew Wilson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: python-list@python.org
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:53:10 GMT
Subject: How to coerce a list of vars into a new type?
I want to verify that three parameters can all be converted into
integers, but I don't want to modify the parameters themselves.
This seems to work:
def f(a, b, c):
a, b, c = [int(x) for x in (a, b, c)]
Originally, I had a bunch of assert isinstance(a, int) statements at the
top of my code, but I decided that I would rather just check if the
parameters can be converted into integers.
The new a, b, and c are all different objects, with different id values.
Anyhow, this all seems like black magic to me. Can anyone explain what
is going on?
Is it as simple as call-by-value?
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From: "Bernard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
To: python-list@python.org
Date: 2 Oct 2006 07:55:23 -0700
Subject: Making posts to an ASP.NET webform.
hiya everyone,
I've made this little webcrawler using BeautifulSoup, urllib and
urllib2. I've been encountering ASP.NET Forms recently and I can't seem
to make a proper post to some of them. My post function has been doing
great until this particular website.
Here's some explanations first so that you guys understands my
problem...
Usually there are 8 hidden inputs spread all over the web page:
__EVENTTARGET --> that is the id of the control that is assigned by the
ASP.NET engine. It is usually in this particular form
"dg_Result$_ctl2$linkbtn1" The _javascript_ function DoPostback usually
replaces the '$' for a ':' before doing the real post. Some other
ASP.NET page doesn't.
__EVENTARGUMENT --> nothing's here usually.
__ScrollTop --> its value is often 0
__ScrollLeft --> same as __ScrollTop
__ValidationSummary --> usually empty
__VIEWSTATEENCRYPTED --> an encrypted string. I don't know what it
means nor what it does.
__EVENTVALIDATION --> an encrypted string. I don't know what it means
nor what it does.
__VIEWSTATE --> the encrypted state of the current control. the state
of a datagrid for example.
I extract all those values using regexes on the web page, build a
dictionnary out of all those values and encrypt the whole thing using
urllib.urlencode(). Afterwards I extract the form action and post the
whole thing with cookies enabled. This procedure works like a charm.
The website I've just encounted has only 3 of the 8 hidden inputs.
(EVENTTARGET, EVENTARGUMENT & VIEWSTATE ).
I tried posting the whole thing using only these 3 values & nada.
I then tried posting the whole thing using all empty values for the 5
remaining values...still nothing.
Has anyone tried what I'm doing? and if you tried how have you
succeeded getting the data back after the post action?
thanks for any tips!
cP
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From: Matthew Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: python-list@python.org
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:59:05 GMT
Subject: How can I make a class that can be converted into an int?
What are the internal methods that I need to define on any class so that
this code can work?
c = C("three")
i = int(c) # i is 3
I can handle the part of mapping "three" to 3, but I don't know what
internal method is called when int(c) happens.
For string conversion, I just define the __str__ method. What's the
equivalent for int? For float, too, while I'm at it?
TIA
Matt
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From: "js " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: python-list@python.org
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 00:08:06 +0900
Subject: Sort by domain name?
Hi list,
I have a list of URL and I want to sort that list by the domain name.
Here, domain name doesn't contain subdomain,
or should I say, domain's part of 'www', mail, news and en should be excluded.
For example, if the list was the following
------------------------------------------------------------
http://mail.google.com
http://reader.google.com
http://mail.yahoo.co.uk
http://google.com
http://mail.yahoo.com
------------------------------------------------------------
the sort's output would be
------------------------------------------------------------
http://google.com
http://mail.google.com
http://reader.google.com
http://mail.yahoo.co.uk
http://mail.yahoo.com
------------------------------------------------------------
As you can see above, I don't want to
Thanks in advance.
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