[Tutor] Simple Python Telnet Client (Help with Asynchronous IO)

2010-08-03 Thread Nathan Farrar
Hello All, I'm attempting to write a simple telnet client. Yes, I've been told that I should be using twisted to do this. I want to learn to do it myself first, so that I can fully understand the concepts - then I will scrap it and switch to using twisted. When I started, I didn't realize there

Re: [Tutor] Pexpect maxread & searchwindowsize, timeout

2009-10-20 Thread Nathan Farrar
tion I can see that pexpect uses a maxread and a searchwindowsize value, but I'm not sure how to use them. Any tips? Thanks again. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:26 AM, vince spicer wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Nathan Farrar > wrote: >> >> I haven&#

[Tutor] Pexpect maxread & searchwindowsize, timeout

2009-10-20 Thread Nathan Farrar
I haven't been able to find any real examples of pexpect usage, nor documentation. Just little bits here and there, so I'm kind of struggling through. I've got the follow bit of code I'm working with: def main(): try: print 'attempting to spawn connection ... ' session = pexp

[Tutor] Help with pexpect

2009-10-16 Thread Nathan Farrar
I'm trying to automate the collection of data to remote devices over ssh via pexpect. I had originally attempted (with limited success) to use paramiko, however due to cisco's ssh implimentation I cannot send mulitple commands over the same connection, which is absolutely essential. Therefore, I'

[Tutor] Exploring the Standard Library

2008-07-05 Thread Nathan Farrar
I'd like to spend some time exploring the standard library. I'm running python on Ubuntu. How would I find the location of the modules (find / -name "os.py" does not yield results)? Thanks! Nathan ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.pyt

[Tutor] Script Name/Path Information

2008-07-05 Thread Nathan Farrar
I'm new to python and wondering if there is a way to reference information about the script that is running. For example, if I was running a script named "FileInfo.py" from the directory "/home/username", I'm looking for attributes such that something similar to: print self.name print self.path