Would you mind perhaps show an example running an interactive command like su and show how to send input to the commands waiting propmts?
-----Original Message----- From: linuxian iandsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 3:17 PM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] how to get response from os.system() i guess that was too short tutorial well, here is an example from a live session on the interpreter. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Nov 23 2007, 16:16:53) [GCC 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> >>> cmd='ping -c 1 localhost' >>> import os >>> a=os.popen(cmd) >>> print a <open file 'ping -c 1 localhost', mode 'r' at 0xb7f1c728> >>> print a.read() PING serv.kontactel.loc (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from serv.kontactel.loc (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.134ms [The entire original message is not included] _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
