How to respond to a confirmation prompt automatically

[Coby]

Just to give you some background about my problem:

I execute os.system(command), where command is a string.

On the command line in windows, I get:

"Continue, and unload these objects? [no]"

I need to respond 'y' to continue, but I am uncertain on how to output
the 'y' automatically.


Thanks in advance.

 

[Rob Wolfe]

Just to give you some background about my problem:

I execute os.system(command), where command is a string.

On the command line in windows, I get:

"Continue, and unload these objects? [no]"

I need to respond 'y' to continue, but I am uncertain on how to output
the 'y' automatically.

You need to use pipe.

1.

p = os.popen(command, "w")
p.write("y\n")

http://docs.python.org/lib/os-newstreams.html#os-newstreams

2.

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
p = Popen(command, shell=True, stdin=PIPE)
p.stdin.write("y\n")

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html

 

[Coby]

Thanks Rob.

Just to give you some background about my problem:

I execute os.system(command), where command is a string.

On the command line in windows, I get:

"Continue, and unload these objects? [no]"

I need to respond 'y' to continue, but I am uncertain on how to output
the 'y' automatically.

You need to use pipe.

1.

p = os.popen(command, "w")
p.write("y\n")

http://docs.python.org/lib/os-newstreams.html#os-newstreams

2.

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
p = Popen(command, shell=True, stdin=PIPE)
p.stdin.write("y\n")

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html