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Jackie James
Jackie James

Reputation: 853

How to include regular expression in tn.read_until()?

import telnetlib
tn = telnetlib.Telnet(IP)
tn.read_until("abcd login: ") --> This is only to match a particular pattern

Can a generic pattern be included in tn.read_until() ? Ex: prompt can be "xyz login: " , "abcd login: " etc

In regular expression, we use re.match('(.*)login: ',prompt) . But i don't think so, this works in tn.read_until() because the parameter it expects itself is a pattern. Is there any way to handle it ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5173

Answers (1)

falsetru
falsetru

Reputation: 369094

Telnet.expect accepts a list of regular expressions:

tn.expect([r"\w+ login: "])

Upvotes: 6

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