ptz ppt...@gmail.com added the comment:
As David suggested, it indeed seems to be a case of timing. When
telnetlib.Telnet(...) returns, the server still doesn't have the data cooked,
and read_very_eager() fetches nothing. So nothing here fails as such, it's just
that my 0 experience
New submission from ptz ppt...@gmail.com:
In Python 2.4, Assuming we've imported telnetlib, the following works:
f = telnetlib.Telnet(some_text_based_server)
f.read_very_eager()
The last call outputs the text that the server outputs upon connection (e.g.
login: ).
However, if we
ptz ppt...@gmail.com added the comment:
Strange. I was certain that I tried inserting a time.sleep() in the function
and it still didn't work, but I tried it just now and it does work as expected.
Sorry, and thanks for your answer, at least I learned something
