Python how to read output from pexpect child?

Question

child = pexpect.spawn (\'/bin/bash\')
child.sendline(\'ls\')
print(child.readline())
print child.before, child.after

All I get with this code in my

Answer 1

Try the following:

import pexpect
child = pexpect.spawn('ls')
print child.read() # not readline

The read() will give you the entire output of the ls.