This thread is already off topic - so thought I should +1 on pexpect. Anyone who hasn't tried it already - should defo take a look.
Used it in quite a few data scrapping Django projects (mostly for talking with devices on RS232 over TCP) - it's very nice. Cal 2011/9/29 Charles Cossé <[email protected]> > Hello, (this is my first post here), just thought it might be helpful to > mention python's pexpect module. It's used like this: > > rcmd="ssh root@%s /etc/init.d/firewall restart"%(IP_SOMEWHERE) > foo = pexpect.spawn(rcmd) > > -Charles Cosse > > > 2011/9/29 Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson <[email protected]> > >> 2011/9/29 Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson <[email protected]>: >> > If you have mutt installed (a popular text-mode mail reader/writer), >> > you can get the same thing done without any scripting: >> > >> > $ echo 'Here you go' |mutt [email protected] -s 'My subject' -a >> /path/to/file >> >> ... following up to myself, one of the main benefits to this approach >> is you can have multiple -a arguments to attach multiple files, and if >> you run just 'mutt -a /path/to/file -a /path/to/file2', it will >> interactively ask you to fill in the blanks. >> >> Although a bit long in the tooth, I think mutt is probably still king >> of the console mail clients. :-) >> >> -- >> Bjarni R. Einarsson >> Founder, lead developer of PageKite. >> >> Make localhost servers visible to the world: http://pagekite.net/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.

