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Wexpect version |version|
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.. image:: https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/tbji72d5s0tagrt9?svg=true
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:target: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/raczben/wexpect
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:align: right
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:alt: Build status
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*Wexpect* is a Windows variant of `Pexpect <https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_
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Wexpect and Pexpect makes Python a better tool for controlling other applications.
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Wexpect is a Python module for spawning child applications;
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controlling them; and responding to expected patterns in their output.
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Wexpect works like Don Libes' Expect. Wexpect allows your script to
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spawn a child application and control it as if a human were typing
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commands.
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Wexpect can be used for automating interactive applications such as
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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
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servers. It can be used for automated software testing.
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Wexpect highly depends on Mark Hammond's `pywin32 <https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32>`_
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which provides access to many of the Windows APIs from Python.
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Install
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^^^^^^^
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Wexpect is on PyPI, and can be installed with standard tools::
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pip install wexpect
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Hello Wexpect
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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To interract with a child process use :code:`spawn` method:
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.. code-block:: python
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import wexpect
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child = wexpect.spawn('cmd.exe')
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child.expect('>')
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child.sendline('ls')
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child.expect('>')
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print(child.before)
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child.sendline('exit')
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For more information see `examples <https://github.com/raczben/wexpect/tree/master/examples>`_ folder.
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Contents:
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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api/index
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history
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examples
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Wexpect is developed `on Github <http://github.com/raczben/wexpect>`_. Please
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report `issues <https://github.com/raczben/wexpect/issues>`_ there as well.
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Indices and tables
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==================
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* :ref:`genindex`
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* :ref:`modindex`
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* :ref:`search`
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