I need to call a shellscript from python. The problem is that the shellscript will ask a couple of questions along the way until it is finished. I can't find a way to do so using subprocess! (usin...

When we run docker-compose up-d command to run dockers using docker-compose.yml file, it starts building images or pulling images from the registry. We can see each and every step of this command o...

I need to do something like this post, but I need to create a subprocess that can be given input and give output many times. The accepted answer of that post has good code... from subprocess impor...

child = pexpect.spawn ('/bin/bash') child.sendline('ls') print(child.readline()) print child.before, child.after All I get with this code in my output is ls ls But when my code is child =...

I am working with pythons pexpect module to automate tasks, I need help in figuring out key characters to use with sendcontrol. how could one send the controlkey ENTER ? and for future reference ho...

I successfully open an ssh connection with paramiko. As i have want to use pexpect for automatic interaction with the system on the remote end, I would like to to pass the paramiko connection to p...

I am using Fabric and would like to use fexpect. I have the following Python script: from ilogue.fexpect import expect, expecting, run (...) def install_postgresql(profile): print("!!! Installin...

I'm trying to write a cross-platform tool that runs specific commands, expects certain output for verification, and sends certain output (like username/password) for authentication. On Unix, I hav...

I am familiar with expect script so I feel a bit odd when I first use pexpect. Take this simple script as an example, #!/usr/bin/expect set timeout 10 spawn npm login expect "Username:" s...

I'm trying to make a program which takes an executable name as an argument, runs the executable and reports the inputs and outputs for that run. For example consider a child program named "cir...

I'm currently passing some input to a process with pexpect with the following code: p = pexpect.spawn('cat', timeout=5.0 ) p.maxread = 5000 p.setecho(False) # prevent the process from echoing stdi...

I'm trying to do a lengthy operation but pexpect with the timeout argument doesn't seem to change the length of time before the timeout exception gets fired. Here is my code: child = pexpect.spawn...

In the following code snippet, how do I find the exit code of make? Specifically, I need to know if make has failed or succeeded. Thanks for any inputs. process = pexpect.spawn("/bin/bash") proces...

I want to run wexpect (the windows port of pexpect) on my Windows 7 64-bit machine. I am getting the following error: C:\Program Files (x86)\wexpect\build\lib>wexpect.py Traceback (most recent ...

I have finally have my python pexpect script working except for the most important part updating the date! I am able to SSH in the box but my second command does not execute properly. I have been b...

I have a Python project that uses pytest-cov for unit testing and code coverage measurement. The directory structure for my project is: rift-python +- rift # The package under test | +- __init__....

I am migrating my code to python 3.4.3. This code works fine in python 2.4.3. but here it throws error in python 3.4.3. should I use anything different from expect ? Here is my code snippet which g...

I am trying to use pexpect on serial port. I use fdpexpect as suggested. But I noticed that expect() does not obey timeout. Instead, the EOF happens. ser = serial.Serial(sys.argv[1], 9600) fd = fd...

I am trying to have pexepct stdout logs via logger that I have defined. Below is the code import logging import pexpect import re import time # this will be the method called by the pexpect object...

I'm trying to bring up [pipenv][1] on a Raspberry Pi Zero W. The symptom I'm seeing is that pexpect times out when trying to create a tutorial project. Admittedly, the RPi is a small machine, but ...

I'm trying to run the code in the Interacting with SSH Through Pexpect and Brute Forcing SSH Passwords with Pxssh sections from Chapter 2 of Violent Python. Using both child.expect() and pxssh I ge...

I've used pexpect on linux successfully to telnet/ssh into Cisco switches for CLI scrapping. I'm trying to convert this code over to Windows and having some issues since it doesn't support the pxpe...

I have write this program: [mik@mikypc ~]$ cat ftp.py #!/usr/bin/env python # This connects to the rediris ftp site # import pexpect child = pexpect.spawn('ftp ftp.rediris.es') child.exp...

This is the code I am trying to run: from pexpect import pxssh s = pxssh.pxssh() if not s.login ('myip', 'myusername', 'mypassword'): print ("SSH session failed on login.") print (str(s)) else: ...

I am connecting to device using code blow on MacOS and out of 100 times this code would make connection only 1 or two times and dones't respond(since there is no timeout) rest of the times. ser = ...