thanks all, appreciate it much.
shawn
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Nathan McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yup I use the pexpect module for a lot however couldn't get 'pexpect.run' to
> work with mysqldump piping to gzip
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Younker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 6:59 PM
> To: Nathan McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: tutor@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] how to get response from os.system()
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> > Would you mind perhaps show an example running an interactive
> > command like su and show how to send input to the commands waiting
> > propmts?
>
> If you're doing that then you *really* want to be using the pexpect
> module.
>
> cmd = pexpect.spawn('su - SOMEINTERACTIVECOMMAND')
> cmd.expect('# ') # the prompt
> cmd.sendline('A COMMAND')
> cmd.expect('# ') # wait for the prompt again
> output = cmd.before # the stuff before the prompt
> cmd.sendline('exit')
> cmd.close()
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> - Jeff Younker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
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