Mike Pindzola wrote: > I have figured many things out. system works, i just forgot to type > os.system(). I have been looking into the os module and am finding alot > of useful stuff. I still need to workout the best way to ask a user for > a root password, show **** when typed and then pass it to the system...
Since you're using linux -- you might also try the pexpect module found here: http://pexpect.sourceforge.net I've found it very useful for interacting with the shell. I don't believe a windows version is available, however. Here's a very basic and untested example: import pexpect # you'll have to install pexpect first, of course import getpass pexpect.spawn('sudo -k') # timeout any existing sudo session child = pexpect.spawn('sudo mount /mnt/foo') child.expect('Password:') child.sendline(getpass.getpass()) mount_results = child.read() print mount_results _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
