[ale] Python & pexpect problem

[Jay Loden]

I have a script that I'm trying to use to do a backup of my website to my home 
machine using scp.  It uses pexpect to enter the password for scp, and it's 
supposed to get all the .htm and .jpg files from /var/www/html/ and download 
them to my desktop machine.  

However, when I run the script, all I get is an error saying 
"/var/www/html/*.htm" : file does not exist

Oddly, if I run the command the usual way from a prompt, it works fine (i.e.  
scp /var/www/html/*.htm jay at desktop.jayloden.com:/home/jay/) 

I'm somewhat stumped since Python is a new thing for me and this is just one 
of a few scripts to cut my teeth on.  Thanks for the help.

-Jay



The script is below:

#! /usr/bin/env python

import os
import sys
import pexpect

def scp(path, scp_to = """ 
jay at desktop.jayloden.com:/home/jay/www/jayloden/html/"""):
	'''does the actual scp work'''
	password = "password"
	command = "scp " + path + scp_to
	recurse_cmd = "scp -r " + path + scp_to
	
	if os.path.isdir(path):
		child = pexpect.spawn(recurse_cmd)
		child.expect('password:')
		child.sendline(password)
		child.expect(pexpect.EOF)
	
		print child.before
	
	else: 
		child = pexpect.spawn(command)
		child.expect('password:')
		child.sendline(password)
		child.expect(pexpect.EOF)
	
		print child.before
		
def main():
	scp("""/html/*.htm""")
	scp("""/html/*.jpg""", 
	""" jay at desktop.jayloden.com:/home/jay/www/jayloden/img/""")

		
main()