[pox-dev] CLI with POX

[Murphy McCauley]

On Oct 3, 2012, at 2:41 AM, William Emmanuel Yu wrote:
> As of betta, running pox.py will no longer drop me into a CLI. I would
> like to go back to the old behavior. How do I do this? I tried
> spelunking the code myself but it wasn't very obvious.

Yeah; I'm not sure where to document this.  Maybe add something in the readme.  Certainly update the wiki, though I am loathe to update the wiki with things that are betta-specific yet.

The "py" component now provides the CLI, so just stick "py" on your commandline.

> Btw, there is a bug with respect to passing parameters to pox.py. Here
> is a small patch to fix it:

Are you sure this is necessary?  Some things to note which might be causing confusion:

boot() trims the first entry off of sys.argv[].
boot() manipulates argv -- it's prepends "py --disable" to the commandline to ensure that py loads early (of_01 will probably work similarly at some point, it's currently special-cased to load early).

> For some reason, using the passed variable argv refers to all the system
> arguments and not the parameter passed to the function. Strange.

This definitely doesn't seem to be the case on my system.  Could it be one of the above-mentioned complications?  What does "print argv" around like 126 in boot.py show?


-- Murphy