python pexpect输出_如何使用pexpect获取python中子进程的自发输出

This is related to my another post multithreading issue with wx.TextCtrl (or underlying GTK+), which after correction with calling GUI interactions from primary thread, I find it again comes to the pipe block buffering problem. so How to get spontaneous output from the subprocess.stdout?

To be in short, currently I am using subprocess.popen to launch an external long-time running program.

launchcmd=["EXTERNAL_PROGRAM_EXE"]

p = subprocess.Popen(launchcmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE,

stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

self.outputThread = BashProcessThread(p.stdout.readline)

self.outputThread.start()

# wx.TextCtrl is used to make input/output

self.textctrl = wx.TextCtrl(self, style=wx.TE_PROCESS_ENTER|wx.TE_MULTILINE)

And I use a separate thread to read the stdout of the background program, with "wx.CallAfter" to call back.

class BashProcessThread(threading.Thread):

def __init__(self, readlineFunc, textctrl):

threading.Thread.__init__(self)

self.readlineFunc = readlineFunc

def run(self):

while True:

line = self.readlineFunc()

wx.CallAfter(textctrl.AppendText(line))

The above code prints out the subprocess log messages block-hanging-block (instead of spontaneously line by line), and the worst is the remaining 5-6 lines of log messages could not be timely printed until the user send the next input.

From my old post, I get to know there is pty and pexpect, which could make the subprocess thought it is interacting with pseudo-tty. But how should pexpect be used, especially considering the background process is long-term, independent running task?

e.g., If I used

child=pexpect.spawn(launchcmd)

How can I get the output and input of the subprocess, so I could use wx.TextCtrl to print the output, and also use wx.TextCtrl to forward user input to subprocess?

解决方案

Have you tried something like:

child = pexpect.spawn(launchcmd)

while True:

try:

child.expect('\n')

print(child.before)

except pexpect.EOF:

break