Telnet

[Chris Liechti]

"Billy Ng" <evebill8 at hotmail.com> wrote in news:d4tm8.2110$oi.93984
@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net:
> Thanks!  "\r\n" is the key.  It works after I added into the write
> (). functon
> 
> Okay, now I have 2 more questions.
> 
> 1) How can I save the returned data into a list?  I tried to use 
> the read_all() function, but it just stops there.
> 
> tn.read_until("ending line")
> lines = []
> lines = tn.read_all()

this simply replaces the list you bound to "lines" with a string 
containig all the data.
 
read_all() will block until the other side closes the connection. if 
you can send a "quit","exit" or "logout"command to the other side it 
might hang up, so that this works but that depends on your server.

> 2) I was also trying to do this,
> 
> tn.read_until("beginnig line to grap")
> lines = []
> lines = tn.read_until("ending line")

same note as above

> for line in lines
>      print line
> 
> But it prints one character in each line

yes, as "type(lines)" will point out its now a string and not a list
bound to the name "lines"

i don't see a method to read by lines in telnetlib. but you can do 
(untested):

import cStringIO
memfile = cStringIO.StringIO(tn.read_until("ending line"))

for line in memfile.readlines():
    	print line

chris

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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>