How to simulate a TTY with popen2?

Tiziano Bettio

Hi Everybody,

I'm stuck trying to write a python module for the vlc videoplayer on
linux (http://www.videolan.org). I'm using the popen2 module to open a
pipe to the program. If I open the vlc player in a shell it recognizes
that I'm running it from a TTY.
Same command with popen2-4 and the vlc doesn't seem to find a TTY so it
tries to open a gui and fails resulting in ending itself.

So here's my question:
Is there a way to open a pipe in python imitating a TTY or am I doing
something completely wrong?

Greetz TC

Jul 18 '05 #1

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Cameron Laird

In article <c2**********@newshispeed.ch>,
Tiziano Bettio <tb*****@transnorm.ch> wrote:

Hi Everybody,

I'm stuck trying to write a python module for the vlc videoplayer on
linux (http://www.videolan.org). I'm using the popen2 module to open a
pipe to the program. If I open the vlc player in a shell it recognizes
that I'm running it from a TTY.
Same command with popen2-4 and the vlc doesn't seem to find a TTY so it
tries to open a gui and fails resulting in ending itself.

So here's my question:
Is there a way to open a pipe in python imitating a TTY or am I doing
something completely wrong?

Greetz TC

Is Pexpect <URL: http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/ > exactly what you want?
--

Cameron Laird <cl****@phaseit.net>
Business: http://www.Phaseit.net

Jul 18 '05 #2

Tiziano Bettio

Cameron Laird wrote:

In article <c2**********@newshispeed.ch>,
Tiziano Bettio <tb*****@transnorm.ch> wrote:
Hi Everybody,

I'm stuck trying to write a python module for the vlc videoplayer on
linux (http://www.videolan.org). I'm using the popen2 module to open a
pipe to the program. If I open the vlc player in a shell it recognizes
that I'm running it from a TTY.
Same command with popen2-4 and the vlc doesn't seem to find a TTY so it
tries to open a gui and fails resulting in ending itself.

So here's my question:
Is there a way to open a pipe in python imitating a TTY or am I doing
something completely wrong?

Greetz TC

Is Pexpect <URL: http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/ > exactly what you want?

Thx... works great!!!

TC

Jul 18 '05 #3

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