popen2 + passwd

[Bryan Fordham]

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On 15 May 2000 19:41:59 GMT, garabik at melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk.spam (Radovan
Garabik) wrote:

>Jp Calderone <exarkun at flashmail.com> wrote:
> : Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work?
>
> : import popen2
>
> : i, o = popen2.popen2('passwd bin')
> : pwd = '12345ASD'
> : o.write(pwd + '\n')
> : o.write(pwd + '\n')
> : i.close()
> : o.close()

Try calling o.flush() after sending the first pwd.  The information in the
pipe isn't actually written until you close it, or until it's flushed.

HTH
- --B

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