eryksun added the comment: Doskey is a command-line interface for a subset of the Win32 console API. Macros are implemented as console input aliases by calling AddConsoleAlias.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681935 You can load macros from a text file that defines aliases for multiple EXEs: doskey /macrofile=doskey.cfg Create this file from your current macros: doskey /macros:all > doskey.cfg You can also use ctypes to add an alias. #!python3 import ctypes import subprocess AddConsoleAliasW = ctypes.windll.kernel32.AddConsoleAliasW AddConsoleAliasW.argtypes = [ctypes.c_wchar_p] * 3 # $db => import builtins;dir(builtins) AddConsoleAliasW("$db", "import builtins;dir(builtins)", "python.exe") #subprocess.call("doskey") subprocess.call("stdintest.exe", shell=True) The "bug" occurs if I uncomment the line to run doskey. When stdin is a file, calling sys.stdin.tell() before and after running doskey shows that it's reading standard input, for whatever reason. That's its prerogative, not a bug. Calling sys.stdin.seek(0) after running doskey works, but that's not a possibility when doskey is run via the cmd shell's AutoRun. By the way, redirection to a file is not a pipe. It actually works for a pipe such as type mytxtfile.txt | testsubproc.py The good news is that you only need to load doskey macros once for a given console window. You can use an AutoRun script that tests and sets an environment variable: @echo off if "%AUTORUN_DOSKEY%"=="No" goto end echo %0: setting doskey macros "%SystemRoot%\System32\doskey.exe" /macrofile="%AppData%\doskey.cfg" set AUTORUN_DOSKEY=No :end This should take care of cases where you're redirecting standard input to a file, assuming the shell wasn't started with the /d option to skip AutoRun. On Posix systems /bin/sh -c doesn't execute .profile, .bashrc, etc. So maybe on Windows Popen should use %ComSpec% /d /c. You'd still have this problem with os.system, however. ---------- nosy: +eryksun _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16892> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
