Problem with win32pipe ...

[xav.vijay]

hi

I have a problem with the following code ...

>>> j = win32pipe.popen('c:\\disk\\plink jnitin@10.94.101.178 -pw mat123 df -g','r')
>>> for i in j:
print i

>>>
As you can see the file object 'j' does not have anything in it...
But if I type 'c:\disk\plink jnitin@10.94.101.178 -pw ibm123 df -g' in the DOS prompt, it works fine and gives me the required result...

So I gave a simple command via python like this...

>>> j = win32pipe.popen('dir','r')
>>> for i in j:
print i

Volume in drive C is DRIVE-C
Volume Serial Number is 5C8D-1DAC

Directory of C:\Disk

29/06/06 03:28 PM <DIR> .
29/06/06 03:28 PM <DIR> ..
29/06/06 02:11 PM <DIR> .idlerc
06/06/06 11:29 AM 225,280 1suntemplate.xls
29/06/06 03:28 PM 14,848 29-6-2006.xls
.
.
19 File(s) 1,474,430 bytes
3 Dir(s) 27,306,981,376 bytes free

>>>
It works fine... but not the previous command....
But the same code executes perfectly on a different machine... Both have XP...

Can anybody help me ??? Why the same code is working on one machine & not in another???

[bumsfeld]

Could be different level of XP upgrade. Early version of Window XP quite buggy!

[TimothyFitz]

win32pipes are broken by definition, unfortunately. They won't work in all cases. I'd post a question to comp.lang.python (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python) where someone else should have experience working with/around plink specifically.

[bumsfeld]

Maybe using the famous Microsoft kludge for handling spaces in filenames will do the trick. This wraps a pair of single quotes and double quote around the string. Try:

j = win32pipe.popen('"c:\\disk\\plink jnitin@10.94.101.178 -pw mat123 df -g"','r')

Also, if plink is plink.exe use extension.

[xav.vijay]

Thanks for the feedback .... Its probably due to XP, the code works fine with Win2K...

[luizfeliperj]

I managed to work around this problem adding this at the end of the command: "2>&1 0< nul:"

plink refuses to work without stdin redirected. It fails with the following error:

Unable to read from standard input: Invalid Identificator.