Goal: In Python have a parent terminal start a program in a child pseudo-terminal (PTY), see its outputs and provide its inputs. At any given time, the parent terminal should be able to query what's on the child's screen at any character index So in pseudocode the parent would do: child_terminal = pty.openpty() child_terminal.exec(my_program) child_terminal.charAt(2, 4) # Returns "@" child_terminal.submitInput("A") child_terminal.charAt(2, 4) # Returns "!" now because the contents of the screen changed per the input submitted Is this a workable task or is there something about command line rendering/state that makes it unfeasible? I thought it would be a common use case for scraping/automation but am not seeing much for this Continue reading...
