Pexpect is a Python module for spawning child applications; controlling them; and responding to expected patterns in their output. Pexpect can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh, ftp, passwd, telnet, etc. Pexpect is pure Python.

Note that Pexpect development has moved to Github: https://github.com/pexpect/pexpect

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  • Excellent. Light-weight and loaded with most of the features I wanted.
  • I use it currently to control uboot and ssh from a Windows7 box, trough cygwin over a ttyS3 (usb serial cable), I should have found out about this earlier ... Nice stuff
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Operating Systems

BSD, Linux

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Developers, Quality Engineers, System Administrators

User Interface

Non-interactive (Daemon)

Programming Language

Python

Related Categories

Python Terminals, Python Build Tools, Python Systems Administration Software, Python Installers

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2002-08-09