I wish there was something like expect that was like, "ok I've done what I neede...

_ph_ · on Sept 8, 2019

Isn't that what interact is meant to do?

jraph · on Sept 8, 2019

If I understood correctly, you may be able to do that using pexpect and the interact method.

    import 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))
        if not child.closed:
            child.setwinsize(a[0],a[1])    
    
    child = pexpect.spawnu("sh", args, encoding='utf-8', logfile=sys.stdout)
    signal.signal(signal.SIGWINCH, sigwinch_passthrough)
    child.expect_exact("...")
    child.logfile = None # Otherwise, interact raises an Exception
    child.send("...\n")
    child.interact()

solresol · on Sept 8, 2019

What's wrong with the interact function?