So far:
I tried
>>> f = os.popen('ping 192.168.8.85 -c 100 > cap2.txt')
You will see that I send the output from the command to a file, because
I want to test how stop the command before it reaches 100 pings.
If I don't write the output to the file 'cap2.txt' and succeeds in
closing 'f', all the data returned to 'f' will be lost.
If i use:
>>>f.close()
Then 'f' is not closed and the commands until 100 packets has been send.
So, I am still looking for a way to stop the command before it
terminates by itself. I will not be able to get the process ID in all he
cases to kill it that way.
Then I tried :
>>> f = os.popen2('ping 192.168.8.85 -c 100 > cap3.txt')
>>> f
(<open file '<fdopen>', mode 'w' at 0x40389530>, <open file '<fdopen>',
mode 'r' at 0x404a69f8>)
>>> f[0].close()
>>> f[1].close()
>>> f
(<closed file '<fdopen>', mode 'w' at 0x40389530>, <closed file
'<fdopen>', mode 'r' at 0x404a69f8>)
This as you can see closes the fd's but the command is not terminated,
because I can see my filesize is growing.
Any other Ideas or what am I doing wrong?
TIA,
Alan Gauld wrote:
>> I send a command to os.system(cmd) and want to send a break signal in
>> the same way. Is this possible? The break signal is ctrl c (^c).
>> I tried this, but it didn't work: os.system('\x03') I think Hex 03 is
>> the signal for ctrl c.
>
>
> Its not possible with os.system because os.system runs the called
> program to completion in a separate process. You would need to mess
> about with threads and process ids to do it that way. However if you
> use popen() (or maybe popen2()? )you should be able to send a Ctrl-C
> character to the process. However whether that actually terminates it
> will depend on the OS, the process and whether Ctrl-C is being caught
> anywhere. But at least there's a chance of it working!
>
> HTH,
>
> Alan G
> Author of the learn to program web tutor
> http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
>
>
>
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