wexpect 0.0.1

Windows alternative of pexpect

wexpect

wexpect is a Windows alternative of pexpect.

pexpect

Pexpect is a Python module for spawning child applications and controlling them automatically. Pexpect can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh, ftp, passwd, telnet, etc. It can be used to a automate setup scripts for duplicating software package installations on different servers. It can be used for automated software testing. Pexpect is in the spirit of Don Libes' Expect, but Pexpect is pure Python. Other Expect-like modules for Python require TCL and Expect or require C extensions to be compiled. Pexpect does not use C, Expect, or TCL extensions. It should work on any platform that supports the standard Python pty module. The Pexpect interface focuses on ease of use so that simple tasks are easy.

There are two main interfaces to Pexpect -- the function, run() and the class, spawn. You can call the run() function to execute a command and return the output. This is a handy replacement for os.system().

For example::

pexpect.run('ls -la')

The more powerful interface is the spawn class. You can use this to spawn an external child command and then interact with the child by sending lines and expecting responses.

For example::

child = pexpect.spawn('scp foo [e-mail]:.')
child.expect ('Password:')
child.sendline (mypassword)

This works even for commands that ask for passwords or other input outside of the normal stdio streams.

Wexpect

Wexpect is a one-file code developed at University of Washington. There are several copy of this code, with very few (almost none) documentation integration.

Here are some useful links:

• https://gist.github.com/anthonyeden/8488763
• https://mediarealm.com.au/articles/python-pexpect-windows-wexpect/

This repo tries to fix these limitations.

Installation and limitation of wexpect

Current version does not work on python-3.x. You need to use python 2.x to use wexpect.

One (non stanbdard) package, pypiwin32 needed to use wexpect.

pip install pypiwin32

Dropping the wexpect.py file into your working directory is usually good enough instead of installing.

Usage

See pexpect examples for usage.