Python: module fdpexpect

fdpexpect (version 2.1) | index /home/noah/documents/export/engineering/source/python/pexpect/trunk/pexpect/fdpexpect.py

`TODO: This is BETA. When it gets stable I will move it into the pexpect.py file.`

Modules
`` |  |
os |  |  |

Classes
`` |  | pexpect.spawn(__builtin__.object) fdspawn
class fdspawn(pexpect.spawn)
`` | `This is like pexpect.spawn but allows you to supply your own, already open file descriptor. For example, you could use it to read through a file looking for patterns, or to control a modem or serial device.`
| Method resolution order: fdspawn pexpect.spawn __builtin__.object Methods defined here: __del__(self) __init__(self, fd, args=[], timeout=30, maxread=2000, searchwindowsize=None, logfile=None) `This takes a file descriptor (an int) or an object that support the fileno() method (returning an int). All Python file-like objects support fileno().` close(self) isalive(self) `This checks if the file descriptor is still valid. If os.fstat() does not raise an exception then we assume it is alive.` kill(self, sig) terminate(self, force=False) Methods inherited from pexpect.spawn: __iter__(self) `This is to support iterators over a file-like object.` __str__(self) `This returns the current state of the pexpect object as a string.` compile_pattern_list(self, patterns) `This compiles a pattern-string or a list of pattern-strings. Patterns must be a StringType, EOF, TIMEOUT, SRE_Pattern, or a list of those. Patterns may also be None which results in an empty list. This is used by expect() when calling expect_list(). Thus expect() is nothing more than:: cpl = compile_pattern_list(pl) return expect_list(clp, timeout) If you are using expect() within a loop it may be more efficient to compile the patterns first and then call expect_list(). This avoid calls in a loop to compile_pattern_list(): cpl = compile_pattern_list(my_pattern) while some_condition: ... i = expect_list(clp, timeout) ...` eof(self) `This returns True if the EOF exception was ever raised.` expect(self, pattern, timeout=-1, searchwindowsize=None) `This seeks through the stream until a pattern is matched. The pattern is overloaded and may take several types including a list. The pattern can be a StringType, EOF, a compiled re, or a list of those types. Strings will be compiled to re types. This returns the index into the pattern list. If the pattern was not a list this returns index 0 on a successful match. This may raise exceptions for EOF or TIMEOUT. To avoid the EOF or TIMEOUT exceptions add EOF or TIMEOUT to the pattern list. After a match is found the instance attributes 'before', 'after' and 'match' will be set. You can see all the data read before the match in 'before'. You can see the data that was matched in 'after'. The re.MatchObject used in the re match will be in 'match'. If an error occured then 'before' will be set to all the data read so far and 'after' and 'match' will be None. If timeout is -1 then timeout will be set to the self.timeout value. Note: A list entry may be EOF or TIMEOUT instead of a string. This will catch these exceptions and return the index of the list entry instead of raising the exception. The attribute 'after' will be set to the exception type. The attribute 'match' will be None. This allows you to write code like this: index = p.expect (['good', 'bad', pexpect.EOF, pexpect.TIMEOUT]) if index == 0: do_something() elif index == 1: do_something_else() elif index == 2: do_some_other_thing() elif index == 3: do_something_completely_different() instead of code like this: try: index = p.expect (['good', 'bad']) if index == 0: do_something() elif index == 1: do_something_else() except EOF: do_some_other_thing() except TIMEOUT: do_something_completely_different() These two forms are equivalent. It all depends on what you want. You can also just expect the EOF if you are waiting for all output of a child to finish. For example: p = pexpect.spawn('/bin/ls') p.expect (pexpect.EOF) print p.before If you are trying to optimize for speed then see expect_list().` expect_exact(self, pattern_list, timeout=-1) `This method is no longer supported or allowed. It was too hard to maintain and keep it up to date with expect_list. Few people used this method. Most people favored reliability over speed. The implementation is left in comments in case anyone needs to hack this feature back into their copy. If someone wants to diff this with expect_list and make them work nearly the same then I will consider adding this make in.` expect_list(self, pattern_list, timeout=-1, searchwindowsize=-1) `This takes a list of compiled regular expressions and returns the index into the pattern_list that matched the child output. The list may also contain EOF or TIMEOUT (which are not compiled regular expressions). This method is similar to the expect() method except that expect_list() does not recompile the pattern list on every call. This may help if you are trying to optimize for speed, otherwise just use the expect() method. This is called by expect(). If timeout==-1 then the self.timeout value is used. If searchwindowsize==-1 then the self.searchwindowsize value is used.` fileno(self) `This returns the file descriptor of the pty for the child.` flush(self) `This does nothing. It is here to support the interface for a File-like object.` getwinsize(self) `This returns the terminal window size of the child tty. The return value is a tuple of (rows, cols).` interact(self, escape_character='\x1d', input_filter=None, output_filter=None) `This gives control of the child process to the interactive user (the human at the keyboard). Keystrokes are sent to the child process, and the stdout and stderr output of the child process is printed. This simply echos the child stdout and child stderr to the real stdout and it echos the real stdin to the child stdin. When the user types the escape_character this method will stop. The default for escape_character is ^]. This should not be confused with ASCII 27 -- the ESC character. ASCII 29 was chosen for historical merit because this is the character used by 'telnet' as the escape character. The escape_character will not be sent to the child process. You may pass in optional input and output filter functions. These functions should take a string and return a string. The output_filter will be passed all the output from the child process. The input_filter will be passed all the keyboard input from the user. The input_filter is run BEFORE the check for the escape_character. Note that if you change the window size of the parent the SIGWINCH signal will not be passed through to the child. If you want the child window size to change when the parent's window size changes then do something like the following example: import pexpect, struct, fcntl, termios, signal, sys def sigwinch_passthrough (sig, data): s = struct.pack("HHHH", 0, 0, 0, 0) a = struct.unpack('hhhh', fcntl.ioctl(sys.stdout.fileno(), termios.TIOCGWINSZ , s)) global p p.setwinsize(a[0],a[1]) p = pexpect.spawn('/bin/bash') # Note this is global and used in sigwinch_passthrough. signal.signal(signal.SIGWINCH, sigwinch_passthrough) p.interact()` isatty(self) `This returns True if the file descriptor is open and connected to a tty(-like) device, else False.` next(self) `This is to support iterators over a file-like object.` read(self, size=-1) `This reads at most "size" bytes from the file (less if the read hits EOF before obtaining size bytes). If the size argument is negative or omitted, read all data until EOF is reached. The bytes are returned as a string object. An empty string is returned when EOF is encountered immediately.` read_nonblocking(self, size=1, timeout=-1) `This reads at most size characters from the child application. It includes a timeout. If the read does not complete within the timeout period then a TIMEOUT exception is raised. If the end of file is read then an EOF exception will be raised. If a log file was set using setlog() then all data will also be written to the log file. If timeout==None then the read may block indefinitely. If timeout==-1 then the self.timeout value is used. If timeout==0 then the child is polled and if there was no data immediately ready then this will raise a TIMEOUT exception. The "timeout" refers only to the amount of time to read at least one character. This is not effected by the 'size' parameter, so if you call read_nonblocking(size=100, timeout=30) and only one character is available right away then one character will be returned immediately. It will not wait for 30 seconds for another 99 characters to come in. This is a wrapper around os.read(). It uses select.select() to implement a timeout.` readline(self, size=-1) `This reads and returns one entire line. A trailing newline is kept in the string, but may be absent when a file ends with an incomplete line. Note: This readline() looks for a \r\n pair even on UNIX because this is what the pseudo tty device returns. So contrary to what you may expect you will receive the newline as \r\n. An empty string is returned when EOF is hit immediately. Currently, the size agument is mostly ignored, so this behavior is not standard for a file-like object. If size is 0 then an empty string is returned.` readlines(self, sizehint=-1) `This reads until EOF using readline() and returns a list containing the lines thus read. The optional "sizehint" argument is ignored.` send(self, str) `This sends a string to the child process. This returns the number of bytes written. If a log file was set then the data is also written to the log.` sendeof(self) `This sends an EOF to the child. This sends a character which causes the pending parent output buffer to be sent to the waiting child program without waiting for end-of-line. If it is the first character of the line, the read() in the user program returns 0, which signifies end-of-file. This means to work as expected a sendeof() has to be called at the begining of a line. This method does not send a newline. It is the responsibility of the caller to ensure the eof is sent at the beginning of a line.` sendline(self, str='') `This is like send(), but it adds a line feed (os.linesep). This returns the number of bytes written.` setecho(self, state) `This sets the terminal echo mode on or off. Note that anything the child sent before the echo will be lost, so you should be sure that your input buffer is empty before you setecho. For example, the following will work as expected. p = pexpect.spawn('cat') p.sendline ('1234') # We will see this twice (once from tty echo and again from cat). p.expect (['1234']) p.expect (['1234']) p.setecho(False) # Turn off tty echo p.sendline ('abcd') # We will set this only once (echoed by cat). p.sendline ('wxyz') # We will set this only once (echoed by cat) p.expect (['abcd']) p.expect (['wxyz']) The following WILL NOT WORK because the lines sent before the setecho will be lost: p = pexpect.spawn('cat') p.sendline ('1234') # We will see this twice (once from tty echo and again from cat). p.setecho(False) # Turn off tty echo p.sendline ('abcd') # We will set this only once (echoed by cat). p.sendline ('wxyz') # We will set this only once (echoed by cat) p.expect (['1234']) p.expect (['1234']) p.expect (['abcd']) p.expect (['wxyz'])` setlog(self, fileobject) `This method is no longer supported or allowed.` setmaxread(self, maxread) `This method is no longer supported or allowed. I don't like getters and setters without a good reason.` setwinsize(self, r, c) `This sets the terminal window size of the child tty. This will cause a SIGWINCH signal to be sent to the child. This does not change the physical window size. It changes the size reported to TTY-aware applications like vi or curses -- applications that respond to the SIGWINCH signal.` wait(self) `This waits until the child exits. This is a blocking call. This will not read any data from the child, so this will block forever if the child has unread output and has terminated. In other words, the child may have printed output then called exit(); but, technically, the child is still alive until its output is read.` write(self, str) `This is similar to send() except that there is no return value.` writelines(self, sequence) `This calls write() for each element in the sequence. The sequence can be any iterable object producing strings, typically a list of strings. This does not add line separators There is no return value.` Data and other attributes inherited from pexpect.spawn: __dict__ = <dictproxy object> `dictionary for instance variables (if defined)` __weakref__ = <attribute '__weakref__' of 'spawn' objects> `list of weak references to the object (if defined)`

Data
`` |  | __all__ = ['fdspawn'] __revision__ = '$Revision: 395 $' __version__ = '2.1'