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In a message of Tue, 08 Sep 2015 04:37:09 -0700, harirammanohar159@gmail.c=
om wr
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>Some where i am missing simple logic.... :)
>
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>child =3D pexpect.spawn('ssh hari@hostname')
>child.logfile =3D sys.stdout
>child.expect('hari\'s Password: ')
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>
>getting error as follows:
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>child.expect('hari\'s Password: ')
>TypeError: must be str, not bytes
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>
>Thanks...
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https://pexpect.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/pexpect.html#run-function
you want to use spawnu because you have a unicode string.

Laura