On Jul 10, 10:38 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 10, 4:00 am, agc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Josiah, > > > > >> This recipe for asynchronous communication usingsubprocesscould be > > > >> used to write an expect-like tool: > > > >> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440554 > > > I have played with the above recipe and it is excellent, > > but could you please go into some more detail about what is needed > > to make a cross platform [p]expect like (non-pty based) tool? > > > Specifically, could you describe how you would connect to > > *another* interactive Python process with your subclass of > > subprocess.Popen? > > i.e: > > > a = Popen('python', stdin=?, stdout=?, stderr=?) > > #now run an interactive session with 'a' > > > I have tried several combinations of the above and I seem > > to be stuck on the fact that python is interacting with a > > 'tty', not 'std*'. Maybe I'm missing a basic piece? > > > Thanks for any input, > > Alex > > > > >> It works on both Windows and *nix. > > > > >> - Josiah > > > > > I had the original dir work but when I tried to trade it out withvim > > > > it isn't clear > > > > how I should call it.. vimfilename and it doesn't find filename for > > > > some reason. > > > > I called it pipe and then > > > > > inport pipe > > > > > def load_instrument3(instr_name, csd_name): > > > > if sys.platform == 'win32': > > > > shell, commands, tail = ('gvim' + csd_name, (csd_name, > > > > csd_name), '\r\n') > > > > else: > > > > shell, commands, tail = ('sh', ('ls', 'echo HELLO WORLD'), > > > > '\n') > > > > > a = pipe.Popen(shell, stdin=pipe.PIPE, stdout=pipe.PIPE) > > > > print pipe.recv_some(a), > > > > for cmd in commands: > > > > pipe.send_all(a, csd_name) > > > > print pipe.recv_some(a), > > > > pipe.send_all(a, csd_name) > > > > print pipe.recv_some(a, e=0) > > > > a.wait() > > > > The example uses a platform-specific shell in order to use the > > > environment variable PATH to discover the executable to run. If you > > > know the exact path to your binary ('gvim' for you), it should work. > > > As-is, your program would require a binary with the name 'gvim'+csd_name > > > in the same path as the script you are executing. > > > > - Josiah- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > I gave this a shot with a windows batch file (although I am not sure I > am doing it right) > > path c:\program files\vim\vim71 > path c:\dex tracker > gvim bay-at-night.csd > echo \intsr | gvim > echo \<endin> | gvim > echo :r strings.orc | gvim > pause > > and it just pulls up gvim bay-at-night.csd and never does the two > searches or pulls up the file. I do have a windows version of sh if > that works better.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
since there are alot of questions about subprocess I will suggest http://www.rutherfurd.net/python/sendkeys/ this emulates the keyboard for windows.. I am not sure if it works yet, -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
