[newbie] trying socket as a replacement for nc

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Jean Dubois <jeandubois314 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Try something simple first:
>> import telnetlib
>> host = '10.128.59.63'
>> port = 7000
>> t = Telnet(host, port)
>> def flush()
>>   t.read_very_eager()
>> def sendCmd(cmd)
>>   t.write('%s\n' % cmd)
>>   return flush()
>> flush()
>> print sendCmd('*IDN?')
>> print sendCmd('*OPC?')
> Still no success:
> jean at mantec:~$ ./test.py
>   File "./test.py", line 7
>     def flush()
>               ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
>
> Tried it both with python2 and python3, same error...

Folks, the OP isn't an expert. Please test your scripts before posting!

I don't have everything I need to test this fully, but here's a
variant of the above that's at least syntactically correct:

from telnetlib import *
host = '10.128.59.63'
port = 7000
t = Telnet(host, port)
def flush():
  t.read_very_eager()
def sendCmd(cmd):
  t.write('%s\n' % cmd)
  return flush()
flush()
print sendCmd('*IDN?')
print sendCmd('*OPC?')

It's written for Python 2, so use that interpreter.

ChrisA