Interfacing with terminal programs

[Drifty]

I decided to give your suggestion a go, Donn, and I had an unexpecting
surprise.  The command that we are running is 'sudo nispassword
<username>'.  I decided to try popen2 to get the file objects and then
use your suggestion of the fd to read from it.  But when I read from
it the prompt output straight to the screen when all I was doing was
write the output to a variable.  I have no clue why it output to the
screen, but it did.

I can't try a pty either since they are apparently broken on our
current install.  I am hoping that when I install Python 2.1 that it
will fix that and I can see what is causing the problem.  I guess the
least I can end up doing is running the various commands in sequence
and automate the entry in the log.  Thanks for the help.

-Brett Cannon


On 14 May 2001 03:54:59 GMT, Donn Cave <donn at oz.net> wrote:

>If you use the file object's fileno() method to get the file descriptor,
>you can forget about the file object and use os.read(fd, size) to
>read what's in the pipe.
>
>	Donn Cave, donn at oz.net