A simple example illustrating typical use:
import getpassimport sysimport telnetlibHOST = "localhost"user = raw_input("Enter your remote account: ")password = getpass.getpass()tn = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST)tn.read_until("login: ")tn.write(user + "\n")if password: tn.read_until("Password: ") tn.write(password + "\n")tn.write("ls\n")tn.write("exit\n")print tn.read_all()| Python Library Reference |