Re: Python wrapper for gnu-screen

[Artur Skonecki]

Hi,
screenutils seems to be an interesting project. I would love to have a
python wrapper around Screen. It would be great if screenutils exposed
interface to every command and returned output if possible: 
screenutils.command.screencommand(args,win)
I use this in my code:

    def command_at(self,command,win="-1"):
        if win=="-1":
            win=""
        else:
            win="-p %s"%win
        os.system('screen -S %s %s -X %s'% (self.pid,win,command))
        l=self.get_lastmsg()
        if l.startswith('Could not'):
            #no such window
            return -1
        else:
            return l

    def get_number_and_title(self,win):
        msg=self.command_at('number',win)
        if msg==-1:
            return -1,-1
        number,title = msg.split("(",1)
        number = number.strip().rsplit(' ',1)[1]
        title = title.rsplit(")",1)[0]
        return number,title

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Artur Skonecki
http://adb.cba.pl

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Christophe, Jean-Charles Narbonne wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a french student and I used screen to administrate server since a long time.
>
> I've never made personal config files or search deep in all screen features but 
> I
> developed for personal usage a lib in python for administration scripts.
> (it's allow to inject code into the screens sessions, use monitoring ...).
>
> I use it to automate things in shell flavored servers.
>
> As I published this lib, I now ask for feedbacks from interested advenced screen
> scripters/users/developers... Is this kind of tool interesting? Which feature 
> should be
> added? Is the gnu-screen spirit respected?
>
> Here the package and the doc:
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/screenutils
>
> Here the Repository:
> http://github.com/Christophe31/screenutils/
>
> Here the main file:
> http://github.com/Christophe31/screenutils/blob/master/screenutils/screen.py
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Christophe Narbonne
>
> http://blogs.dotnet-france.com/christophen/