nios2-terminal command line

ok, figured this out and wanted to post it for others...

from a search on SF, the send control function might not work as expected. So the guy recommended that the poster use just send send('\003') instead of sendcontrol('c'). '\003' being the ascii for cntrl c

so i tried that. didnt work.

then i saw another mention on these forums that to escape nios2-terminal, i actually need to send a cntrl-D

so i tried that. no luck

then i sent another couple of sendline(deadbeefs) and tried to readline()

well, in the response back from readline, i saw that nios2-terminal had closed in response to cntrl-d

So the trick is.... after sending the cntrl-d ascii, i needed to "flush buffer" with a send line.

I then modified the code to replace "SC.sendcontrol('c') to 'SC.sendline('\004') and bam, it worked

so it should be:

from winpexpect import winspawn

import time

SC=winspawn("C:/altera/13.0/nios2eds/Nios_II_Command_Shell.bat")

SC.expect('$')

SC.sendline('nios2-terminal')

time.sleep(5)

SC.sendline('deadbeef;')

SC.sendline('\004')

hope this helps someone!