On Jun 3, 10:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to perform following type of operation from inside a python > script. > 1. Open an application shell (basically a tcl ) > 2. Run some commands on that shell and get outputs from each command > 3. Close the shell > > I could do it using communicate if I concatenate all my commands > ( separated by newline ) and read all the output in the end. So > basically I could do following sequence: > 1. command1 \n command2 \n command 3 \n > 2. Read all the output > > But I want to perform it interactively. > 1. command1 > 2. read output > 3. command2 > 4. read output ...... > > Following is my code: > > from subprocess import * > p2 = Popen('qdl_tcl',stdin=PIPE,stdout=PIPE) > o,e = p2.communicate(input='qdl_help \n qdl_read \n > qdl_reg_group_list ') > > Please suggest a way to perform it interactively with killing the > process each time I want to communicate with it. > > Thanks in advance, > -Rahul.
It sounds like this may help: http://www.noah.org/wiki/Pexpect (pure python expect-like functionality) Ali -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list