[Tutor] Writing a script to interact with an interactive commandprogram

[Demonic Software]

Alan,

I have been working with the Popen class, and it hangs when I perform the
read on the stdout socket.  I am not sure how to read from the file object
after I perform the write into the process.  When I use "communicate" it
closes the PIPE and terminates the process.  Below are some configurations I
tried.

#  using the Popen.communicate API
k = Popen("/bin/bash", shell=True, bufsize=1024, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE,
close_fds=True)
(stdout, stderr) = k.communicate("ls -all\n")
print stdout
<directory listing>

#  Trying to read k.stdout directly
k = Popen("/bin/bash", shell=True, bufsize=1024, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE,
close_fds=True)
k.stdin.write("ls -all\n")
k.stdout.read()
<hangs here>



On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> "Demonic Software" <demonic.software at gmail.com> wrote
>
>  (cin, cout_cerror) = os.popen4("/bin/bash")
>>
>> # write a command on the input pipe of the shell
>> print "writing ls -all!\n\n"
>> cin.write("ls -all")
>> cin.flush()
>>
>
> I would have expected that you needed to pass an explicit newline at the
> end of the command?
>
> Just a guess.
>
> Also consider using the subprocess module and the Popen class.
> os.popen is somewhat deprecated nowadays.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Alan Gauld
> Author of the Learn to Program web site
> http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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