Re: Basic interaction with another program

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On 2011-05-04, Matty Sarro <msarro@gmail.com> wrote:



> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:34 PM, ETP <matthew.moorland@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a dos program (run in a window) that I would like to control
>> with a script.

> Look into the pexpect library, it'll make this easy as punch.

I don't think pexpect is going to do the OP much good. Quoting from
the web page:

  "Pexpect does not currently work on the standard Windows Python"

> http://www.noah.org/wiki/pexpect

Seriously?  Yellow on brown text?

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Basic interaction with another program ETP <matthew.moorland@gmail.com> - 2011-05-04 09:34 -0700
  Re: Basic interaction with another program Matty Sarro <msarro@gmail.com> - 2011-05-04 12:39 -0400
    Re: Basic interaction with another program Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-04 16:52 +0000
      Re: Basic interaction with another program Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-05-04 11:30 -0600
        Re: Basic interaction with another program Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-04 18:07 +0000
  Re: Basic interaction with another program Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-04 15:15 -0400
    Re: Basic interaction with another program ETP <matthew.moorland@gmail.com> - 2011-05-04 15:21 -0700

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