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      1 #!/usr/bin/env python
      2 
      3 """This demonstrates an FTP "bookmark". This connects to an ftp site; does a
      4 few ftp stuff; and then gives the user interactive control over the session. In
      5 this case the "bookmark" is to a directory on the OpenBSD ftp server. It puts
      6 you in the i386 packages directory. You can easily modify this for other sites.
      7 """
      8 
      9 import pexpect
     10 import sys
     11 
     12 child = pexpect.spawn('ftp ftp.openbsd.org')
     13 child.expect('(?i)name .*: ')
     14 child.sendline('anonymous')
     15 child.expect('(?i)password')
     16 child.sendline('pexpect (at] sourceforge.net')
     17 child.expect('ftp> ')
     18 child.sendline('cd /pub/OpenBSD/3.7/packages/i386')
     19 child.expect('ftp> ')
     20 child.sendline('bin')
     21 child.expect('ftp> ')
     22 child.sendline('prompt')
     23 child.expect('ftp> ')
     24 child.sendline('pwd')
     25 child.expect('ftp> ')
     26 print("Escape character is '^]'.\n")
     27 sys.stdout.write (child.after)
     28 sys.stdout.flush()
     29 child.interact() # Escape character defaults to ^]
     30 # At this point this script blocks until the user presses the escape character
     31 # or until the child exits. The human user and the child should be talking
     32 # to each other now.
     33 
     34 # At this point the script is running again.
     35 print 'Left interactve mode.'
     36 
     37 # The rest is not strictly necessary. This just demonstrates a few functions.
     38 # This makes sure the child is dead; although it would be killed when Python exits.
     39 if child.isalive():
     40     child.sendline('bye') # Try to ask ftp child to exit.
     41     child.close()
     42 # Print the final state of the child. Normally isalive() should be FALSE.
     43 if child.isalive():
     44     print 'Child did not exit gracefully.'
     45 else:
     46     print 'Child exited gracefully.'
     47 
     48