screenutils is a set of classes that should help handling gnu-screen windows.

Feel free to report any modification you made, the whole code source is available under the terms of the GPLv2.

Exemple in a python console:

>>> from screenutils import list_screens, Screen
>>> list_screens()
[]
>>> s= Screen("session1",True)
>>> # screen blink once
>>> # funky prompt should reduce logs lisibility so you should use sh or bash
>>> s.send_commands('bash')
>>> s.enable_logs()
>>> s.send_commands("df")
>>> print next(s.logs)
df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6             20161172   8084052  11052980  43% /
none                   1505916       304   1505612   1% /dev
none                   1512676       936   1511740   1% /dev/shm
none                   1512676       380   1512296   1% /var/run
none                   1512676         0   1512676   0% /var/lock
none                   1512676         0   1512676   0% /lib/init/rw
none                  20161172   8084052  11052980  43% /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs
/dev/sda7            403567768 196284216 186783420  52% /home
popi@popi-laptop:~/Dev/github/screenutils$
>>> s.disable_logs()
>>> s = None
>>> s = Screen("session1")
>>> s.exists
True
>>> s2 = Screen("session2")
>>> s2.exists
False
>>> s2.initialize()
>>> list_screens()
[<Screen 'session2'>, <Screen 'session1'>]
>>>

You could install screenutils from github, by doing the following:

$ git clone http://github.com/Christophe31/screenutils.git
$ cd screenutils
$ python setup.py install

Or by just using the packages publicated at pypi, for instance with pip:

$ pip install screenutils

• screens listing
• screen session creation
• screen session closing
• screen code insertion
• screen monitoring/logging

• screen session sharing with unix users

  • to allow this feature, you will need to change some unixs rigths:

    • sudo chmod +s /usr/bin/screen
    • sudo chmod 755 /var/run/screen

This may not work properly with bpython.

• multi windows screen support