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# wexpect
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wexpect is a Windows alternative of [pexpect](https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).
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## pexpect
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Pexpect is a Python module for spawning child applications and controlling
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them automatically. Pexpect can be used for automating interactive applications
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such as ssh, ftp, passwd, telnet, etc. It can be used to a automate setup
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scripts for duplicating software package installations on different servers. It
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can be used for automated software testing. Pexpect is in the spirit of Don
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Libes' Expect, but Pexpect is pure Python. Other Expect-like modules for Python
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require TCL and Expect or require C extensions to be compiled. Pexpect does not
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use C, Expect, or TCL extensions. It should work on any platform that supports
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the standard Python pty module. The Pexpect interface focuses on ease of use so
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that simple tasks are easy.
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There are two main interfaces to Pexpect -- the function, run() and the class,
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spawn. You can call the run() function to execute a command and return the
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output. This is a handy replacement for os.system().
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For example::
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pexpect.run('ls -la')
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The more powerful interface is the spawn class. You can use this to spawn an
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external child command and then interact with the child by sending lines and
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expecting responses.
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For example::
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child = pexpect.spawn('scp foo myname@host.example.com:.')
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child.expect ('Password:')
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child.sendline (mypassword)
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This works even for commands that ask for passwords or other input outside of
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the normal stdio streams.
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Credits: Noah Spurrier, Richard Holden, Marco Molteni, Kimberley Burchett,
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Robert Stone, Hartmut Goebel, Chad Schroeder, Erick Tryzelaar, Dave Kirby, Ids
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vander Molen, George Todd, Noel Taylor, Nicolas D. Cesar, Alexander Gattin,
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Geoffrey Marshall, Francisco Lourenco, Glen Mabey, Karthik Gurusamy, Fernando
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Perez, Corey Minyard, Jon Cohen, Guillaume Chazarain, Andrew Ryan, Nick
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Craig-Wood, Andrew Stone, Jorgen Grahn (Let me know if I forgot anyone.)
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Free, open source, and all that good stuff.
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## Installation and limitation of wexpect
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Current version does *not* work on python-3.x. You need to use **python 2.x** to use wexpect.
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One (non stanbdard) package, **pypiwin32** needed to use wexpect.
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pip install pypiwin32
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## Usage
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See pexpect examples for usage.
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