expect module and/or functionality? Or SSH wrapper module?

[Michael Hudson]

claird at starbase.neosoft.com (Cameron Laird) writes:

> If not, no, you can't Expect with pure Python; there's no
> practical way to get the pseudoterminal munging right without
> calls into the C run-time library that Python itself can't
> access.

Huh?  You have openpty, forkpty, ioctl, setsid, setpgrp, ... what more
do you need?

> I'm working on techniques to use standard distribution instal-
> lations of (Tcl-based) Expect and (pure) Python to achieve
> general results.  The idea is that many hosts--essentially
> all Linuxes, for example--are already equipped with these
> executables, so all you'd need to install are your pure-Python
> scripts.  I don't have these ready yet, though.

Not to say that this isn't a worthy goal...

Cheers,
M.

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