Can't open an interactive container

I’m trying to convert a Python script from executing command line statements to using docker-py. I have a running container with MongoDB, and I want to create another container with Mongo shell.

This command-line works for me as expected:

docker run -i -t --entrypoint="mongo" mongo-image mongo-url:27017 Also succeeded converting it to separate docker create, docker start and docker attach commands, but I fail to get an interactive Mongo shell using docker-py. This is what I’m trying to do:

container = c.create_container(
        image=MONGO_IMAGE,
        entrypoint='mongo',
        command='%s:27017' % ip,
        detach=False,
        stdin_open=True,
        tty=True
    )
    c.start(container=container['Id'])
    c.attach(container=container['Id'])

but it doesn’t work (container is created, but not attached). How can I make it happen?

[elliotwoods]

my run command looks like this:

		client.containers.run(imageName
			, stdin_open = True
			, tty = True
			, name = "hacnode"
			, detach = True
			, volumes = {
				'/root' : {
					'bind' : '/mnt',
					'mode' : 'rw'
				}
			}
			, privileged = True
			, restart_policy = {
				"MaximumRetryCount": 0,
				"Name": "unless-stopped"
			}
			, network_mode = 'host'
		)

you just need to check those first lines about stdin_open and tty

[elliotwoods]

please note that the container does not become interactive within the python terminal, it just means that i can attach to the container later (this is what i want). if you want to attach to the container, then i would suggest using a system command to docker to perform this for you. trying to do this from within python sounds very messy, as the remote terminal should essentially have full control of the local terminal, which would mean a lot of actions would have to be passed through python, and the docker executable would do a much more consistent job of this.