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@@ -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', |