read_until problem under telnetlib

[dma2]

"Daniel Fackrell" <newsgroups.NOSPAM at dfackrell.mailshell.com> wrote in message news:<3ee780cd$1_1 at hpb10302.boi.hp.com>...
> dma2 wrote:
> > hi, i am having a problem that seems not to have been adressed yet on
> > this list
> >
> > i work on thousands of cisco equipements, and as usual the cisco
> > prompt is not consistent across their whole range of equipements and i
> > need this kind of code
> >
> > tn.write ('sh conf\n') #this command print the startup configuration
> > on cisco
> > try:
> >    sh_conf = tn.read_until(["\(enable\)", "#"],5)
> > except EOFError :
> >    print "telnet interrompu, impossible de lire le sh_conf" + ip
> >    unreachable.write("telnet interrompu, impossible de lire le
> > sh_conf" + ip + '\n')
> >    continue
> >
> > i used to match a sting like "foo" i had previously sent to the
> > equipement but i need a cleaner solution that does not make the cisco
> > complain about unknown command
> > i want to match 2 differents strings ( ios or catos )
> >
> > and i get this message
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "C:\Python22\script\telnet-python-2.py", line 265, in ?
> >     sh_ver = tn.read_until([ "\(enable\)", "#" ],2)
> >   File "C:\Python22\lib\telnetlib.py", line 284, in read_until
> >     i = self.cookedq.find(match)
> > TypeError: expected a character buffer object
> >
> > i use this line elsewhere and it works
> >
> > prompt5 = tn.expect (["\(enable\)","#"],2)
> >
> > expect is supposed to accept multiple string or compile regexp
> > but i can't get it to work
> > any help welcome
> > thanks
> 
> You are using tn.read_until() where you're getting the traceback, and
> tn.expect() where you're not.  I suspect you intended tn.expect() in both
> places, as read_until() takes a string-like object (Maybe "character buffer"
> in the error could be replaced with something clearer?) as its first
> argument instead of a list of regular expressions.
> 
> See: http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/telnet-objects.html


thanks