Re: Looking for a telnetlib/select package for use in Jython.

On Thursday 13 February 2003 14:37, Ryan Eberly wrote:

<snip java telnet stuff>

>
> Yes, I have been pursuing this as a solution.  However, what I really want
> is to script telnet in pure python.  So the resulting script can either be
> run imbedded in java with Jython, or directly in Python.  The underlying
> Telnet object could be a java object in Jython, but the method signature
> would have to match the pure Python version of Telnet.
>
> I looked at changing the method signatures on these Java Telnet packages to
> match the Python telnetlib package.  But some of the python Telnet methods
> return tuples.  Is there a way to have a java method return a value that
> Jython will treat as a tuple?

Two ways: 
- use a wrapper method in python,
- return an org.core.python.PyTuple (ie a tuple in Jython) from a java 
wrapper method. See the Jython Java API docs on how to do this.

> The other option might be to rewrite the telnetlib package replace where
> select is used.
>
> Does anyone know if someone has already done this?

I don't know. I vaguely recall some talk about implementing the C like python 
socket using the new async i/o in Java 1.4. Such a socket might be useful.

Have fun,
Ype


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