Method setecho

pexpect/pty_spawn.py:382–414

This sets the terminal echo mode on or off. Note that anything the child sent before the echo will be lost, so you should be sure that your input buffer is empty before you call setecho(). For example, the following will work as expected:: p = pexpect.spawn('cat'

(self, state)

        return self.ptyproc.getecho()

    def setecho(self, state):
        '''This sets the terminal echo mode on or off. Note that anything the
        child sent before the echo will be lost, so you should be sure that
        your input buffer is empty before you call setecho(). For example, the
        following will work as expected::

            p = pexpect.spawn('cat') # Echo is on by default.
            p.sendline('1234') # We expect see this twice from the child...
            p.expect(['1234']) # ... once from the tty echo...
            p.expect(['1234']) # ... and again from cat itself.
            p.setecho(False) # Turn off tty echo
            p.sendline('abcd') # We will set this only once (echoed by cat).
            p.sendline('wxyz') # We will set this only once (echoed by cat)
            p.expect(['abcd'])
            p.expect(['wxyz'])

        The following WILL NOT WORK because the lines sent before the setecho
        will be lost::

            p = pexpect.spawn('cat')
            p.sendline('1234')
            p.setecho(False) # Turn off tty echo
            p.sendline('abcd') # We will set this only once (echoed by cat).
            p.sendline('wxyz') # We will set this only once (echoed by cat)
            p.expect(['1234'])
            p.expect(['1234'])
            p.expect(['abcd'])
            p.expect(['wxyz'])


        Not supported on platforms where ``isatty()`` returns False.
        '''
        return self.ptyproc.setecho(state)

    def read_nonblocking(self, size=1, timeout=-1):
        '''This reads at most size characters from the child application. It