Wexpect
is a Windows variant of
Pexpect
Wexpect and Pexpect makes Python a better tool for controlling other applications.
Wexpect is a Python module for spawning child applications;
controlling them; and responding to expected patterns in their output.
Wexpect works like Don Libes’ Expect. Wexpect allows your script to
spawn a child application and control it as if a human were typing
commands.
Wexpect 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.
Wexpect highly depends on Mark Hammond’s
pywin32
which provides access to many of the Windows APIs from Python.
Install
Wexpect is on PyPI, and can be installed with standard tools:
pip install wexpect
To interract with a child process use spawn method:
import wexpect
child = wexpect.spawn('cmd.exe')
child.expect('>')
child.sendline('ls')
child.expect('>')
print(child.before)
child.sendline('exit')
For more information see examples folder.
Contents:
API documentation
