How to capture user input from Bash prompt with Python

Question

I am running mysql_secure_installation which prompts the user for the root database password and asks the user to enter Yes or No to some other initial setup options. How would I capture the root password that the user enters?

I'm thinking something like :

capture = subprocess.Popen(['mysql_secure_installation'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
root_pwd = capture.communicate()

I'd like to also feed in default options to the other prompts. How can I do that?

can you try this stackoverflow.com/questions/4688441/…

Jayesh Bhoi
– Jayesh Bhoi

2014-04-15 04:29:37 +00:00
Commented Apr 15, 2014 at 4:29 — Jayesh Bhoi
– Jayesh Bhoi, Commented Apr 15, 2014 at 4:29

jfs · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-15 05:02:04Z

1

To intercept user input for a subprocess transparently, you could use pty.spawn():

import os
import pty

def read(fd):
    data = os.read(fd, 512)
    print('got input %r' % data)
    return data

pty.spawn('mysql_secure_installation', stdin_read=read)

answered Apr 15, 2014 at 5:02

jfs

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