I am trying to automate the following session - to talk to my router: ======================= telnet speedtouch Trying 192.168.1.254... Connected to speedtouch. Escape character is '^]'. Username : Administrator Password : ------------------------------------------------------------------------
______ SpeedTouch 780 ___/_____/\ / /\ 6.1.7.2 _____/__ / \ _/ /\_____/___ \ Copyright (c) 1999-2006, THOMSON // / \ /\ \ _______//_______/ \ / _\/______ / / \ \ / / / /\ __/ / \ \ / / / / _\__ / / / \_______\/ / / / / /\ /_/______/___________________/ /________/ /___/ \ \ \ \ ___________ \ \ \ \ \ / \_\ \ / /\ \ \ \ \___\/ \ \/ / \ \ \ \ / \_____/ / \ \ \________\/ /__________/ \ \ / \ _____ \ /_____\/ \ / /\ \ /___\/ /____/ \ \ / \ \ /___\/ \____\/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _{Administrator}=>? Following commands are available : help : Displays this help information menu : Displays menu ? : Displays this help information exit : Exits this shell. .. : Exits group selection. saveall : Saves current configuration. ping : Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets. traceroute : Send ICMP/UDP packets to trace the ip path. Following command groups are available : firewall service autopvc connection cwmp dhcp dns dsd dyndns eth adsl atm config debug env expr grp hostmgr ids igmp interface ip ipqos label language mbus memm mlp nat ppp pptp script snmp sntp software system systemlog upgrade upnp user voice wireless {Administrator}=>exit ======================== I am using the following code: #!/usr/bin/env python import pexpect import sys child = pexpect.spawn('telnet 192.168.1.254') fout = file('mylog.txt','w') child.logfile = fout child.expect('sername : ') child.sendline('Administrator') child.expect('assword : ') child.sendline('') child.expect('_{Administrator}=>') child.sendline('?') child.expect('_{Administrator}=>') child.expect('exit') ======================== This times out after child.sendline('Administrator') mylog.txt contains: Trying 192.168.1.254... Connected to 192.168.1.254. Escape character is '^]'. Username : Administrator Administrator ======================== Can anyone help me in finding out what I am doing wrong? Regards David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list