Multiple Telnet sessions through one script

[Carl J. Van Arsdall]

Well, although you spawn seperate telnet processes there is still only 
one thread of control in your pythons script.  If you need to do two 
things simultaneously you'll need to setup a parallel control 
mechanism.  For example you could use python threads, each thread spawns 
a separate telnet and controls it accordingly.  Similarly, you could 
fork off other python scripts that control each telnet session.

Alright, so that's for controlling two telnets at once.  I think you'll 
have another problem, and that's controlling each telnet session 
manually. To do this I think you'll need to setup an interface that 
provides the two consoles you are after.  I'm not exactly sure the best 
way to do that.  One thought I have is if you used one of the various 
GUI toolkits you could have your app open a window that is seperated 
into two consoles.  Each thread could be bound to one of these consoles 
and you could switch between the two by clicking on one side versus the 
other.  Although if you want to do it all in a shell, or have your 
program open multiple shells I'm not sure how to do that, you might 
check google.  I suppose if you were doing things from a single shell 
and wanted to do thing similar to the GUI toolkit I described earlier, 
you could try something like ncurses. 

I guess I have one final idea, you could use a single shell, buffer 
output from each telnet session and have your main control loop give you 
the ability to switch back and forth between the two sessions. 

Anyhow, hope those ideas help you out a little.

vmalhotra wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am new in python scripting. I want to open a Multiple telnet session
> through once script. In other way i can tell i want to open two linux
> consoles through one script.
>
> I wrote one script, but the issue is I am not able to open multiple
> consoles. The Scripts which i wrote is as follows:
>
> import pexpect
> session = pexpect.spawn("telnet localhost 2601\n")
> session.expect("Password: ")
> session.send("XYZ\n\n")
> session.expect("Router1> ")
> session1 = pexpect.spawn("telnet localhost 2604\n")
> session1.expect("Password: ")
> session1.send("ABCD\n\n")
> session1.expect("ospfd> ")
> #session1.interact()
> session1.interact()
>
> output :
> ospf>
>
> But in this case, i want in one console router one can open and on
> other console ospf should open. But this i want to do is through one
> script only.
>
> Regds
> Vik
>
>   


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