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| author | Thomas Kluyver <takowl@gmail.com> | 2015-10-05 11:56:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Kluyver <takowl@gmail.com> | 2015-10-05 11:56:08 +0100 |
| commit | 12e67e8c755c2dd7539e3f0466481e80b24353a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 79e99a81b00dcdc6a20b93fb8de2c81eaa72eb5a | |
| parent | ae07c52f56a2470f35257a6734b6b646cce13976 (diff) | |
| download | pexpect-git-12e67e8c755c2dd7539e3f0466481e80b24353a8.tar.gz | |
Update README and PyPI description
| -rw-r--r-- | README.rst | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | setup.py | 10 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@ Pexpect 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. Pexpect is in the spirit of Don Libes' Expect, but -Pexpect is pure Python. Unlike other Expect-like modules for Python, Pexpect -does not require TCL or Expect nor does it require C extensions to be compiled. -It should work on any platform that supports the standard Python pty module. -The Pexpect interface was designed to be easy to use. +Pexpect is pure Python. + +The main features of Pexpect require the pty module in the Python standard +library, which is only available on Unix-like systems. Some features—waiting +for patterns from file descriptors or subprocesses—are also available on +Windows. If you want to work with the development version of the source code then please read the DEVELOPERS.rst document in the root of the source code tree. @@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ Pexpect 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. Pexpect is in the spirit of Don Libes' Expect, but -Pexpect is pure Python. Unlike other Expect-like modules for Python, Pexpect -does not require TCL or Expect nor does it require C extensions to be compiled. -It should work on any platform that supports the standard Python pty module. -The Pexpect interface was designed to be easy to use. +Pexpect is pure Python. + +The main features of Pexpect require the pty module in the Python standard +library, which is only available on Unix-like systems. Some features—waiting +for patterns from file descriptors or subprocesses—are also available on +Windows. """ setup (name='pexpect', |