[Tutor] Telnetlib (Tutor.org) (fwd)

[lumbricus@gmx.net]

> Hi Levy,

Hello!

[ snip ]

> About password input: is it possible to use the 'getpass' module for this?
> It handles the display of a prompt, and also disguises the user's
> keystrokes so that the password doesn't show on screen.
> 
> 
> Best of wishes to you!
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 19:55:37 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Levy Lazarre <llazarre@yahoo.com>
> To: dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Telnetlib (Tutor.org)
> 
> Hi Danny,
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion about redirecting stderr to
> a file. The problem is that the TelnetLib module sends
> the errors to stdout, not stderr. I cannot redirect
> stdout because I prompt the user for a user ID and
> password and they would not see those prompts if I
> redirect stdout.

perhaps you can start your program via shell script 
and then capture stdout with tee(1)
man 1 tee

> Maybe I should tweak the module itself and redirect
> the errors to stderr then redirect stderr to a file?

Sounds interesting.

> Thanks,
> 
> Levy

HTH, HAND
J"o!

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