sending to an xterm

[Edwin.Madari at VerizonWireless.com]

since I do not have access to xterm, here is the interactive session for spawning bash(another session if you will), sending ls command to it, and retrieving the results.
things to note are:
1. after spawning expect for the prompt, timeout, and eof #which ever happens first
2. return value is the action that matched
3. if prompt matched, the 'before' has the results
4. even the command 'ls' with '\r\n' will be in the results.
------------actual session--------------------------
madared at WNJ10002LBITAZV:/c/Edwin/Projects/expect
$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 18 2007, 16:56:43) 
[GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pexpect
>>> c = pexpect.spawn('/bin/bash')
>>> c.expect([pexpect.TIMEOUT, pexpect.EOF, '\$ '])
2
>>> c.before
'\x1b[?1034hmadared at WNJ10002LBITAZV:/c/Edwin/Projects/expect\r\n'
>>> c.after
'$ '
>>> c.sendline('ls')
3
>>> c.expect([pexpect.TIMEOUT, pexpect.EOF, '\$ '])
2
>>> c.before
'ls\r\nautoexpect.exp\tscript.exp\r\nmadared at WNJ10002LBITAZV:/c/Edwin/Projects/expect\r\n'
>>> c.after
'$ '
>>> 
>>> exit()
madared at WNJ10002LBITAZV:/c/Edwin/Projects/expect
$ 
---------------------------------------------------------------

good luck....
Edwin
-----Original Message-----
From: python-list-bounces+edwin.madari=verizonwireless.com at python.org
[mailto:python-list-bounces+edwin.madari=verizonwireless.com at python.org]
On Behalf Of Kent Tenney
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:25 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: sending to an xterm


Howdy,

I want to open an xterm, send it a command and have it execute it.

I thought pexpect would do this, but I've been unsuccessful.

term = pexpect.spawn('xterm')

starts an xterm, but

term.sendline('ls') 

doesn't seem to do anything.

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Kent

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