Moved things around a bit in interact(), so outout is processed before

input.  When an EOF is read, break out of the loop instead of (by
default) writing an empty line (which doesn't do much good).  Don't
close self when falling through the loop.

Lib/telnetlib.py

@@ -376,9 +376,6 @@ class Telnet:
 	"""Interaction function, emulates a very dumb telnet client."""
 	while 1:
 	    rfd, wfd, xfd = select.select([self, sys.stdin], [], [])
-	    if sys.stdin in rfd:
-		line = sys.stdin.readline()
-		self.write(line)
 	    if self in rfd:
 		try:
 		    text = self.read_eager()
@@ -388,7 +385,11 @@ class Telnet:
 		if text:
 		    sys.stdout.write(text)
 		    sys.stdout.flush()
-	self.close()
+	    if sys.stdin in rfd:
+		line = sys.stdin.readline()
+		if not line:
+		    break
+		self.write(line)
 
     def expect(self, list, timeout=None):
 	"""Read until one from a list of a regular expressions matches.