Message 248899 - Python tracker

Message248899

Author	njs
Recipients	Jim.Jewett, The Compiler, ezio.melotti, martin.panter, mbussonn, ncoghlan, njs, serhiy.storchaka, takluyver, terry.reedy
Date	2015-08-20.16:59:13
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Message-id	<1440089953.67.0.198695750746.issue24294@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I don't see how any of those suggestions help for writing an automated test. Spawning a shell is irrelevant; the problem is to get a tty, which is much harder. There only way I can see that might work for an automated test is to use https://docs.python.org/3/library/pty.html which is Linux only, but I suppose that's better than nothing. (isatty(sys.stdin) does do something sensible on Windows, right? I hope?)

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I don't see how any of those suggestions help for writing an automated test. Spawning a shell is irrelevant; the problem is to get a tty, which is much harder. There only way I can see that might work for an automated test is to use
  https://docs.python.org/3/library/pty.html
which is Linux only, but I suppose that's better than nothing.

(isatty(sys.stdin) does do something sensible on Windows, right? I hope?)

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