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Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote:

>This function:
>
>def scp(from_path,to_path,pwd):
> """Copy a file with scp."""
> cmd = '/bin/csh -c "scp -q %s %s ; echo XXX"' %(from_path,to_path)
> print cmd
> child = pexpect.spawn(cmd)
> child.expect('Password:')
> child.sendline(pwd)
> child.expect('XXX')
> return child.exitstatus
>
>always returns None.
>
.....

>How can I
>get the exit status code? Please help me.
>
>
I could develop a workaround, but this is a real hack, using bourne
shell and the $? variable.

def scp(from_path,to_path,pwd):
"""Copy a file with scp.

Return the exit code."""
cmd = '/bin/sh -c "scp -q %s %s ; echo $? ; echo XXX "'
%(from_path,to_path)
print cmd
child = pexpect.spawn(cmd)
child.expect('Password:')
child.sendline(pwd)
child.expect("XXX")
parts = []
for item in child.before.split('\n'):
if item.strip() != "":
parts.append(item.strip())
code = int(parts[-1])
print "exit code:", code
if (code != 0):
print parts[0]
return code

Is there a platform independent solution?

Les