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-rw-r--r--pexpect/fdpexpect.py24
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pexpect/fdpexpect.py b/pexpect/fdpexpect.py
index 96ca2e1..2b51e24 100644
--- a/pexpect/fdpexpect.py
+++ b/pexpect/fdpexpect.py
@@ -84,3 +84,27 @@ class fdspawn(SpawnBase):
def terminate (self, force=False): # pragma: no cover
raise ExceptionPexpect('This method is not valid for file descriptors.')
+
+ # These four methods are left around for backwards compatibility, but not
+ # documented as part of fdpexpect. You're encouraged to use os.write#
+ # directly.
+ def send(self, s):
+ "Write to fd, return number of bytes written"
+ s = self._coerce_send_string(s)
+ self._log(s, 'send')
+
+ return os.write(self.child_fd, s)
+
+ def sendline(self, s):
+ "Write to fd with trailing newline, return number of bytes written"
+ s = self._coerce_send_string(s)
+ return self.send(s + self.linesep)
+
+ def write(self, s):
+ "Write to fd, return None"
+ self.send(s)
+
+ def writelines(self, sequence):
+ "Call self.write() for each item in sequence"
+ for s in sequence:
+ self.write(s)