Questions tagged [wexpect]
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Wexpect freezes at spawn() method
When I run the example code from wexpect, it freezes on the spawn method.
import wexpect
prompt = '[A-Z]\:.+>'
child = wexpect.spawn('cmd.exe')
child.expect(prompt) # Wait for startup prompt
child.sendline('dir') # List the current…
Domin
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run an executable using wexpect
I have an executable (evapo.exe) which has to be called with an input file (inputs.prj), usually I do it using windows command prompt by just typing c:\myfiles\evapo inputs.prj (of course both the executable and input file located in myfiles…
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How to write a code to get another python script output that require an input
I want to give score to several python scripts written by different people and i want to automate the answer check since the given question is same. So we send an input to another python file, we get the output (the terminal/console output) then we…
Yusuf Syam
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wexpect equivalent for logging
I have the following codes using pexpect in linux it is ok.
import pexpect
child = pexpect.spawn('ssh test@ip' % (susername, ip) , encoding='utf-8')
child.logfile = open("{}/{}.txt".format(folder, ip),"w")
when have tried to change to wexpect to…
Andy
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Problems when trying to use wexpect for controlling sub-process
i'm trying to use wexpect on windows machine, and facing issues in the very basic operations.
i'm running the following command:
import wexpect
child = wexpect.spawn('cmd.exe')
child.send('dir')
and getting the following…
Moish
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How to install wexpect?
I'm running 32-bit Windows XP and trying to have Matlab communicate with Cgate, a command line program. I'd like to make this happen using wexpect, which is a port of Python's module pexpect to Windows. I'm having trouble installing or importing…
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Running wexpect on windows
I have installed wexpect on Windows 7. Now, when I am trying to run any command, I am getting the below error. I am using MKS toolkit, so ls is a valid command.
>>> import pexpect
>>> pexpect.run('ls ')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File…
sarbjit
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Wexpect in a Python Virtual Environment
When run in cmd window, the spawn command works fine, but if in a virtual environment, it hangs forever.
This works
C:\Users\csullivan\Documents\Projects\netlog>python
Python 3.9.5 (tags/v3.9.5:0a7dcbd, May 3 2021, 17:27:52) [MSC v.1928 64 bit…
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How do I get wexpect to interact a python script?
Folks, I would like to know if there is an issue w/ wexpect.
Is this module working as expected?
things seem to work as expected in pexpect on linux
import wexpect
child = wexpect.spawn('cmd')
child.expect('>') #instantaneous…
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