I have a executable which requires a tty (as stdin and stderr), and want to be able to test it.
I want to input stdin, and capture the output of stdout and stderr, here's an example script:
# test.py
import sys
print("stdin: {}".format(sys.stdin.isatty()))
print("stdout: {}".format(sys.stdout.isatty()))
print("stderr: {}".format(sys.stderr.isatty()))
sys.stdout.flush()
line = sys.stdin.readline()
sys.stderr.write("read from stdin: {}".format(line))
sys.stderr.flush()
I can run this without tty, but that gets caught by .isatty
and each return False:
import subprocess
p = subprocess.Popen(["python", "test.py"], stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
p.stdin.write(b"abc\n")
print(p.communicate())
# (b'stdin: False\nstdout: False\nstderr: False\n', b'read from stdin: abc\n')
I want to capture the stdout and stderr and have all three return True - as a tty.
I can use pty
to make a tty stdin:
import subprocess
m, s = pty.openpty()
p = subprocess.Popen(["python", "test.py"], stdin=s, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
stdin = os.fdopen(m, 'wb', 0)
os.close(s)
stdin.write(b"abc\n")
(stdout, stderr) = p.communicate()
stdin.close()
print((stdout, stderr))
# (b'stdin: True\nstdout: False\nstderr: False\n', b'read from stdin: abc\n')
I've tried a bunch of permutations to make stdout and stderr tty to no avail.
The output I want here is:
(b'stdin: True\nstdout: True\nstderr: True\n', b'read from stdin: abc\n')
The code below is based on jfs' answers here and here, plus your idea of using 3 pseudo-terminals to distinguish stdout, stderr and stdin (though note there is a cryptic warning that something may go wrong (such as a possibly truncated stderr on OSX?) by doing so).
Also note that the docs say pty
is for Linux-only though it is "supposed to work" for other platforms:
import errno
import os
import pty
import select
import subprocess
def tty_capture(cmd, bytes_input):
"""Capture the output of cmd with bytes_input to stdin,
with stdin, stdout and stderr as TTYs.
Based on Andy Hayden's gist:
https://gist.github.com/hayd/4f46a68fc697ba8888a7b517a414583e
"""
mo, so = pty.openpty() # provide tty to enable line-buffering
me, se = pty.openpty()
mi, si = pty.openpty()
p = subprocess.Popen(
cmd,
bufsize=1, stdin=si, stdout=so, stderr=se,
close_fds=True)
for fd in [so, se, si]:
os.close(fd)
os.write(mi, bytes_input)
timeout = 0.04 # seconds
readable = [mo, me]
result = {mo: b'', me: b''}
try:
while readable:
ready, _, _ = select.select(readable, [], [], timeout)
for fd in ready:
try:
data = os.read(fd, 512)
except OSError as e:
if e.errno != errno.EIO:
raise
# EIO means EOF on some systems
readable.remove(fd)
else:
if not data: # EOF
readable.remove(fd)
result[fd] += data
finally:
for fd in [mo, me, mi]:
os.close(fd)
if p.poll() is None:
p.kill()
p.wait()
return result[mo], result[me]
out, err = tty_capture(["python", "test.py"], b"abc\n")
print((out, err))
yields
(b'stdin: True\r\nstdout: True\r\nstderr: True\r\n', b'read from stdin: abc\r\n')