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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  • heathersimmons Posted 2013-06-25
    Thank you for your work.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • emosim Posted 2013-03-21
    This is great. Thank you for your work guys!
  • adiskx Posted 2013-02-26
    Thank, Noah Spurrier! Your FSM is beautiful. I use it.
  • judithp Posted 2013-02-09
    Excellent. Light-weight and loaded with most of the features I wanted.
  • oid-3940887 Posted 2012-08-10
    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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BSD, Linux

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English

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Developers, Quality Engineers, System Administrators

User Interface

Non-interactive (Daemon)

Programming Language

Python

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2002-08-09
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