executing local command, but it prompts "No hosts found. Please specify (single) host string for connection"

[tly1980]

Here is my code,

from ilogue.fexpect import expect, expecting, local

@task
def test_expect():
    prompts = []
    prompts += expect('enter aes-256-cbc decryption password', 'abc')

    with expecting(prompts):
        local('echo "ENCRYPTED TEXT...." | openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -a')

however it gives me following error

No hosts found. Please specify (single) host string for connection:

This is supposed to be a local command. Why it is asking me the host config ?

[tly1980]

Fabric & fexpect version: Fabric==1.7.0 fexpect==0.2.post7

[jladdjr]

Hi tly1980,

Thanks for touching base with the issue you mentioned. Let me dig into this and see if I can find a fix for you - thanks!

Jim

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:08 AM, tly1980 notifications@github.com wrote:

Fabric & fexpect version: Fabric==1.7.0 fexpect==0.2.post7

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/ilogue/fexpect/issues/12#issuecomment-21849292 .

[beaugunderson]

Also hitting this fabric==1.8.0 and fexpect==0.2.post7.

[gblaha]

Me too. Would love for local() to not require a hostname. Looks like the problem might be that local() calls wrapExpectations(), which calls fabric.api.put(). For a "local" fabric task, a simple local file operation -- rather than a fabric.api.put() call -- should do.

[JasperVanDenBosch]

I agree, but don't have the time to look into this now.. sorry.

[quietlyconfident]

The pull request I submitted (#18) fixes this issue.

[JasperVanDenBosch]

Thanks Erik! Looks good. Do most of you just clone from here or is there a lot of interest to update the pypi package?

[quietlyconfident]

Hi-

Thank you! I can’t speak for anyone else, but I would use the pypi package if it were updated; it makes it simpler to automate installations.

-Erik

On Dec 29, 2013, at 7:54 PM, ilogue notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks Erik! Looks good. Do most of you just clone from here or is there a lot of interest to update the pypi package?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[JasperVanDenBosch]

Alright, fexpect-0.2.post17 is now on pypi.