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Subject: Re: SSH/Telnet program to Router/switch
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On Feb 19, 2014, at 3:14 AM, Sujith S <sujiths80@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> I am new to programming and python. I am looking for a python script =
to do ssh/telnet to a network equipment ? I know tcl/perl does this =
using expect/send.=20
>=20
> Do we have expect available in python as well or need to use some =
other method ?
>=20
> Regards
> Sujith
> --=20
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

In addition to the other answers you've received (and noting that you =
are familiar with "expect"), you might want to investigate the pexpect =
module. Google will give you quite a long list of references to it, but =
you could start here:  http://pexpect.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

-Bill=