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| author | jquast <contact@jeffquast.com> | 2013-10-27 14:34:41 -0700 |
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| committer | jquast <contact@jeffquast.com> | 2013-10-27 14:34:41 -0700 |
| commit | e4017db29ff81676393e3f93a7007e3fefda337b (patch) | |
| tree | b521d486288d6f4eb4da8440fb1c63dae6baa71c /doc | |
| parent | 50c80da80f49f6b047e671d153b521d5d1127f1a (diff) | |
| download | pexpect-e4017db29ff81676393e3f93a7007e3fefda337b.tar.gz | |
stylize `before' and `after' property references
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/overview.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/overview.rst b/doc/overview.rst index 960a2f8..133767f 100644 --- a/doc/overview.rst +++ b/doc/overview.rst @@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ method waits for the child application to return a given string. The string you specify is a regular expression, so you can match complicated patterns. The :meth:`~pexpect.spawn.send` method writes a string to the child application. From the child's point of view it looks just like someone typed the text from a -terminal. After each call to :meth:`~pexpect.spawn.expect` the before and after -properties will be set to the text printed by child application. The before -property will contain all text up to the expected string pattern. The after +terminal. After each call to :meth:`~pexpect.spawn.expect` the ``before`` and ``after`` +properties will be set to the text printed by child application. The ``before`` +property will contain all text up to the expected string pattern. The ``after`` string will contain the text that was matched by the expected pattern. The match property is set to the `re match object <http://docs.python.org/3/library/re#match-objects>`_. @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ If the child has died and you have read all the child's output then ordinarily :meth:`~pexpect.spawn.expect` will raise an :class:`~pexpect.EOF` exception. You can read everything up to the EOF without generating an exception by using the EOF pattern expect. In this case everything the child has output will be -available in the before property. +available in the ``before`` property. The pattern given to :meth:`~pexpect.spawn.expect` may be a regular expression or it may also be a list of regular expressions. This allows you to match |
