Auto respond to script prompts

[natefish]

I am using python 2.0 (due to limitations setting by the system I am working on) and have to routinely run a series of scripts that require the same user input over and over again.

Is there a way to create another script to automatically fill out these prompts? I cannot edit the original scripts in any way.

Thanks,
nf

 

[ZaSter]

Is this on a Unix or Linux machine? Or a Windows?

 

[natefish]

This is on a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine.

 

[JustinEzequiel]

if the authors of the original scripts used constructs such as

if __name__ == '__main__'

then you could perhaps write a small python script that imported the original scripts
e.g.,

# original_script1.py
def sayhi(user, passwd):
    print 'Hello', user

if __name__ == '__main__':
    user = raw_input('name:')
    passwd = raw_input('passwd:')
    sayhi(user, passwd)

then we could write

# new_script.py
import original_script1

if __name__ == '__main__':
    user = 'justin'
    passwd = 'foobar'
    original_script1.sayhi(user, passwd)

 

[natefish]

thanks for the suggestion, however this method doesn't work in this instance because (I discovered as I looked at the source code more closely) the main script calls other scripts which call other scripts etc. It looks like a pretty big mess to try and sort out which scripts require which input...

any other ideas?

nf

 

[JustinEzequiel]

given the following script (Script1.py) which asks for two inputs

import time

def hi(a): print 'hi', a

def hello(b): print 'hello', b

if __name__ == '__main__':
    x = raw_input('hi: ')
    hi(x)
    time.sleep(5)
    y = raw_input('hello: ')
    hello(y)

and the following file (input.txt)

foo
bar

I can, from the console, issue the following

type input.txt | python Script1.py

or you could look at os.popen* or the popen2 module