On 12/07/2016 10:59 AM, John Gordon wrote: > In <f9d6e83d-d8e7-4245-a02f-906557263...@googlegroups.com> Karim Farokhnia > <karim.farokh...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hi there, > >> I am writing a batch file in Python. The batch file, in part, calls a >> program named "oq-console.bat" to run. Then once the program comes up >> (it looks like windows CMD), I need the batch file to type some commands >> to make it run (just like I would do it by myself). > > If you need to start up a program, provide interactive input to it, and > perhaps examine its interactive output, then you want the "pexpect" module: > > Pexpect is a pure Python module for spawning child applications; > controlling them; and responding to expected patterns in their output. > Pexpect allows your script to spawn a child application and control it > as if a human were typing commands. > > https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Does Pexpect work on Windows? In the OP's case it looks like the standard in pipe is sufficient. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
