The following snippet alone is taking 1 minute to execute. is there any best way to find 'No such file' other than using child.before
if not scrutinFile.startswith('/') : scrutinFile = '/'+ scrutinFile scrutinFileFtp = directory + scrutinFile filePath, file = os.path.split(scrutinFileFtp) p.sendline('cd %s'%(filePath)) p.expect([pexpect.EOF,pexpect.TIMEOUT]) if 'No such file' in p.before: print "No such directory exists!!" sys.exit(1) pyfreek -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list