[Tutor] Writing a script to interact with an interactive commandprogram

[Alan Gauld]

"Demonic Software" <demonic.software at gmail.com> wrote

> (cin, cout_cerror) = os.popen4("/bin/bash")
> 
> # write a command on the input pipe of the shell
> print "writing ls -all!\n\n"
> cin.write("ls -all")
> cin.flush()

I would have expected that you needed to pass an 
explicit newline at the end of the command?

Just a guess.

Also consider using the subprocess module and the Popen class.
os.popen is somewhat deprecated nowadays.

HTH

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Alan Gauld
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