dealing with terminal prompts in gui programs that i am making

[rhlegion]

I am making an application that has a gui to do my system updates [mainly just for programming practice (I'm still a noob)] and i know that i can do gksudo to get a password prompt to come up in gui to solve the problem of running something in root privileges, but what do i do about the [Y/n] prompt?
I'm using python 2.7.3
and Tkinter for my gui.

if this can be done purely in python (which i know it probably can but i mean in a simple way i could use, learn from, and implement later) i would like to find out how.
also
if it can be done through a terminal command similar to gksudo that too would be helpful.


Thanks
rhlegion

[25tom]

With apt-get terminal command there's the option "-y" which assumes yes to all queries...
Hope this helps

[rhlegion]

Thank you very much that will do it!

but i will leave this thread open a little longer just to see some other options, such as maybe how to completely do it in python. :)




Thanks
rhlegion

[25tom]

Glad to have helped! Sorry, I don't know anything about Python, so hopefully someone who can do the Python equivalent of this will be give more info.
Have fun programming :)

[sisco311]

Thread moved to Programming Talk.

[rhlegion]

well i guess that will do it for the ubuntu forums. I guess ill move over to the python documentation to figure out the rest.

[steeldriver]

I'm not exactly clear what you want to do - maybe some kind of expect-like functionality? there appears to be a pexpect module for python

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pexpect-u