hey folks,
A simple question hopefully. despite all my searching I have not found a
satisfactory response.
The goal. Interact with a command line program. Simple enough, but the
key is INTERACT.
I tried the shell and comand approaches but that initiates, it does not
allow interaction with the
On Jul 13, 7:50 pm, Dan Stromberg - Datallegro
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You could start up a pty and do your own Pexpect-like thing, using
> read/readline/write.
>
> However, this may not be portable to windows. Maybe if you get the python
> that comes with cygwin, or build your own python und
send keys for the p.c. you can use a try: except: concept and on the
> windows platform there is also a way to use autoit in python using
> pywin.
thanks for the uggestion about sendkeys. I might be able to build that
into the wrapper.
So you're sugesting:
NIX = Pexpect
WINDOZE = sendkeys
Cor
Thanks for your response. It;s good to see you're promtoing Pexpect. I
was actualy wokring on a project at work that could have used Pexpect
to automate the creation of maps by tieing togethr a bunch of
processes through SSH and Pexpect looked like the money shot.
however it was enough of a battle
> You probably
> mean:http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440554
>
> Why is that not sufficient? It will allow interaction with a called
> subprocess, in a cross-platform manner, etc.
>
> - Josiah
Sorry maybe 'not sufficient' was the wrong excuse. Maybe the right
thing to
