> how I thought that it was supposed to work was it would allow me to use > sbp.communicate() to > send stuff to the stdin, and get information out. What do get is a prompt > ask for my password.
I believe that su does not read its input from stdin but from its controlling tty. So you'd have to open a pseudo terminal: have a look at the pty module. cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
