Controlling an external program with Python

[Mark C Favas]

Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> writes:

>Quoth ge at nowhere.none (Grant Edwards):
>| In article <kuzoobue0g.fsf at lasipalatsi.fi>, Erno Kuusela wrote:
>|>>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Keating <keating at mech.uq.edu.au> writes:
>|>
>|>    Tony> start the program, then send various strings to the program,
>|>    Tony> read some output from the program then send some more
>|>    Tony> strings to the program.
>|>
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>| Or you can roll your own using the popen2 module.

>OK, but check to see if your application will work reliably on
>a pipe, before you put too much work a pipe solution.  I append
>a short sample program that works with the shell as a remote
>application, but deadlocks with awk.  The awk behavior is what
>I would expect from most programs, so normally you're sunk.

If it won't work with pipes, have a look at the pty library module...

Cheers,
	Mark
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