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		mikepurvis on Oct 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tcl: Everything Is a String Python's pexpect is very nice: https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ And if it's an ssh session you want to remote control, paramiko-expect is great, in particular the take_control method that lets your remote session be partly automated and partly controlled by the user running the outer program: https://github.com/fgimian/paramiko-expect/blob/master/param...

takeda on Oct 28, 2019 [–]

pexpect is nice, and basically replicates expect functionality in Python. I remember when using it it had few minor bugs, but maybe that improved.

stjohnswarts on Oct 28, 2019 | [–]

I like pexpect but it's next to useless on windows. If you are mostly doing ssh/ftp then paramiko is a useful (if heavy) pexpect replacement and works across platforms

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