pexpect parse router output

[HarrietLopez11088]

I've got a couple of expect lines to log onto a cisco router and issue the show arp command. I then exit the router, having stored the data into the variable myARP (myARP=child.before)

When I then try and loop over the object (for lines in myARP: print(lines), the info is displayed 1 character per line
l
i
k
e

t
h
i
s

Apologies as this is probably a very basic question, but why can't I display as it is shown if I issue the command manually? Is it to do with the streaming nature of the telnet connection? How can this be resolved PrepaidCardStatus???

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

can you post the script ? Most likely it is something related to the terminal length. You can try:

expect >

send -- "terminal lengh 0\r"

[Seb Rupik]

Hi there,

I looks like the variable myARP is a string and not a list. When you are trying to print each element with a newline, you are in fact printing each character of the string.

Share your script, we can debug it.

cheers,

Seb.

[Jon Marshall]

As Seb says it looks like it is treating it as a string so try this with your for loop - 

for line in myARP.split('\r\n'):
      print(line)

basically you are telling it where the separator is for each line through the loop. 

Jon