Danny, Thanks for the response. We looked at using pexpect (I'm a UNIX guy at heart), but we have variable command prompts, that may or may not show up, with this program, so expect/pexpect would be difficult. John's suggestion was to add some sort of unique ID as a good idea, but won't work in this situation. I guess in the end, doing something with pexpect would be the way to go if I needed to. This issue has been resolved in another way (per my last message to the list).
Thanks again for the response, Steven -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:06 PM To: Faulconer, Steven M. Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Popen and Prompting On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Faulconer, Steven M. wrote: > Been digging through the web and the archives for the tutor list and > can't seem to locate an answer to my question. It is probably out there, > but my searching skills are failing me. I recently wrote a GUI for > several command line programs using Tkinter. Everything is working quite > well, until I ran into one program that actually prompts for some input. Hi Steven, This is a common problem. The Unix folks have traditionally used a program called "Expect" to automate talking with interactive external processes. There's a Python equivalent to Expect: take a look at the 'pexpect' module. Here you go: http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/ The documentation on that page has a few examples that should help you get started. Best of wishes to you! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
