How to simulate a TTY with popen2?
Cameron Laird
claird at lairds.com
Wed Mar 10 19:08:30 EST 2004
In article <c2o6pe$dn8$1 at newshispeed.ch>,
Tiziano Bettio <tbettio at transnorm.ch> wrote:
>Hi Everybody,
>
>I'm stuck trying to write a python module for the vlc videoplayer on
>linux (http://www.videolan.org). I'm using the popen2 module to open a
>pipe to the program. If I open the vlc player in a shell it recognizes
>that I'm running it from a TTY.
>Same command with popen2-4 and the vlc doesn't seem to find a TTY so it
>tries to open a gui and fails resulting in ending itself.
>
>So here's my question:
>Is there a way to open a pipe in python imitating a TTY or am I doing
>something completely wrong?
>
>Greetz TC
Is Pexpect <URL: http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/ > exactly what you want?
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