[project @ robey@ralph.lag.net-20051204044921-ae847bf450372ff5]

add comments to demo and demo_simple explaining that they don't work on windows

3 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index eb0cfec0..c5d813f0 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -272,7 +272,6 @@ v0.9 FEAROW
 
 ***  MISSING LINKS
 
-* add comments to demo & demo_simple about how they don't work on windows
 * host-based auth (yuck!)
 * SFTP implicit file locking?
 * ChannelException like the java version has
@@ -289,5 +288,3 @@ v0.9 FEAROW
 
 * make a function to parse .ssh/config files:
 	User, Hostname, Port, ProxyCommand, IdentityFile
-
-* weird prefetch bug with bzr?
diff --git a/demo.py b/demo.py
index 2f0242b5..a02e8867 100755
--- a/demo.py
+++ b/demo.py
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@
 # along with Paramiko; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 # 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA.
 
+
+# ----- WINDOWS USERS PLEASE NOTE -----
+# This demo won't work on Windows because it uses pseudo-terminals, which
+# are a posix-only feature.  check out the README file for a simpler demo.
+
+
 import sys, os, socket, threading, getpass, time, base64, select, termios, tty, traceback
 import paramiko
 
diff --git a/demo_simple.py b/demo_simple.py
index 7eade45b..655a1a48 100755
--- a/demo_simple.py
+++ b/demo_simple.py
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@
 # along with Paramiko; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 # 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA.
 
+
+# ----- WINDOWS USERS PLEASE NOTE -----
+# This demo won't work on Windows because it uses pseudo-terminals, which
+# are a posix-only feature.  check out the README file for a simpler demo.
+
+
 import sys, os, base64, getpass, socket, traceback, termios, tty, select
 import paramiko
 
@@ -85,7 +91,7 @@ try:
         tty.setcbreak(sys.stdin.fileno())
         chan.settimeout(0.0)
 
-        while 1:
+        while True:
             r, w, e = select.select([chan, sys.stdin], [], [])
             if chan in r:
                 try: