[Tutor] A problem in read_until(expected[,timeout])

[Lloyd Kvam]

I think this should work:
	obj.read_until(timeout=10)	# no expect string
or
	obj.read_until("ten",10)	# "ten" or 10 seconds

read_until is a method of the telnet object so your code should have the
name you gave the telnet object before the read_until.  I used obj
simply to indicate there should be some name there.

The documentation can be confusing because it uses [] to mark optional
parameters while Python uses [] to mark lists.

When you do not need all of the arguments, you can specify the names of
the arguments that you want to use.  That's why timeout=10 should work
in the first suggestion.


On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 17:04, W X Liu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want use read_until object to interact with telnet. The problem is that if I 
> just want to match the expected string, then it will be fine. code would be 
> 
> read_until(expected)
> 
> But if I want to just want to match the timeout seconds, I don't know how to 
> write it. 
> 
> I code it as 
> 
> read_until([,seconds]) 
> 
> Then invalid syntax occurs. Or if I add a expected string together with 
> timeout, then I code it as
> 
> read_until(ten [,10])
> 
> ten is the string I want to match, and 10 is the expected timeout second, 
> butinvalid syntax occurs again. So anyone can help me to solve this? Many thanks
> 
> 
> Wenxin
> 
> 
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Lloyd Kvam
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