[Tutor] how to get response from os.system()

[shawn bright]

thanks all, appreciate it much.
shawn

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Nathan McBride <nomb85 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Yup I use the pexpect module for a lot however couldn't get 'pexpect.run' to work with mysqldump piping to gzip
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>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Jeff Younker <jeff at drinktomi.com>
>  Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 6:59 PM
>  To: Nathan McBride <nomb85 at comcast.net>
>  Cc: tutor at python.org
>  Subject: Re: [Tutor] how to get response from os.system()
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> > Would you mind perhaps show an example running an interactive
>  > command like su and show how to send input to the commands waiting
>  > propmts?
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>  If you're doing that then you *really* want to be using the pexpect
>  module.
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>  cmd = pexpect.spawn('su - SOMEINTERACTIVECOMMAND')
>  cmd.expect('# ')   # the prompt
>  cmd.sendline('A COMMAND')
>  cmd.expect('# ')   # wait for the prompt again
>  output = cmd.before  # the stuff before the prompt
>  cmd.sendline('exit')
>  cmd.close()
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>  - Jeff Younker - jeff at drinktomi.com -
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