So it seems there is no good way to handle "interactive" processes on windows using python. By interactive I mean processes/commands that require user interaction, such as telnet or del (to delete a file or directory sometimes you need to confirm with a yes or no), date, etc.
os.system gives the exact behavior, but you can't redirec the output. pexpect isn't supported on windows. Even with subprocess you can't handle all/most cases..since you have to do things like look for he prompt. I modified the original suggestion so it would update the prompt, in case the user did a "cd.." ..which works fine now. However, if a user tries to do, "del tmp123" ...windows prompts for a "are you sure you want to delete... Y/N?" ...so the code hangs. I can't believe no one else has done this yet..or if they have, it hasn't been widely discussed. Any other suggestions? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
