pexpect is POSIX compliant and works under Cygwin. I haven't tried it under pythonw.
Just install cgywin (including python) then follow the standard instructions for pexpect. There was one small trick I had to do to get cygwin working totally properly on my machine which was run a rebaseall. Rebaseall sets the memory addresses for the DLLs or something like that. However, there is a slight problem. The rebaseall runs inside cygwin and uses one of the DLLs. To get around this I change the rebaseall script to write it's command to a text file and then run those commands in a DOS cmd shell. After that everything has worked without problem. Good luck, Paul jas wrote: >Paul, > I did ceck out the PExpect, however, I thought it was not ported for >Windows. Did you find a ported version? If not, what did you have to >do to be able to use it? > >Thanks > >Paul Dale wrote: > > >>You might want to try python expect which gives you a very simple and >>scriptable interface to a process. >> >>http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/ >> >>I've been using it on windows to automate a few things. >> >>Cheers, >> >>Paul >> >>jas wrote: >> >> >> >>>Kent, >>> Yes, your example does work. So did os.popen...however, the problem >>>is specific to "cmd.exe". >>> Have you tried that yet? >>> >>>Thanks! >>> >>>Kent Johnson wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>jas wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Ok, I tried this... >>>>> >>>>>C:\>python >>>>>Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] >>>>>on win32 >>>>>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>>import subprocess as sp >>>>>>>>p = sp.Popen("cmd", stdout=sp.PIPE) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>result = p.communicate("ipconfig") >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>'result' is not recognized as an internal or external command, >>>>>operable program or batch file. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>basically I was opening to send the "ipconfig" command to cmd.exe and >>>>>store the result in the "result" variable. But you can see there was >>>>>an error with result. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>This works for me: >>>>import subprocess as sp >>>>p = sp.Popen("ipconfig", stdout=sp.PIPE) >>>>result = p.communicate()[0] >>>>print result >>>> >>>>Kent >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
