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Diffstat (limited to 'pexpect/spawnbase.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | pexpect/spawnbase.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pexpect/spawnbase.py b/pexpect/spawnbase.py index aa7ef86..0518d83 100644 --- a/pexpect/spawnbase.py +++ b/pexpect/spawnbase.py @@ -251,7 +251,10 @@ class SpawnBase(object): *before* is all data received up to the exception, while *match* and *after* attributes are value None. - If timeout is -1 then timeout will be set to the self.timeout value. + When the keyword argument timeout is -1 (default), then TIMEOUT will + raise after the default value specified by the class timeout + attribute. When None, TIMEOUT will not be raised and may block + indefinitely until match. When the keyword argument searchwindowsize is -1 (default), then the value specified by the class maxread attribute is used. @@ -319,9 +322,8 @@ class SpawnBase(object): expressions). This method is similar to the expect() method except that expect_list() does not recompile the pattern list on every call. This may help if you are trying to optimize for speed, otherwise just use - the expect() method. This is called by expect(). If timeout==-1 then - the self.timeout value is used. If searchwindowsize==-1 then the - self.searchwindowsize value is used. + the expect() method. This is called by expect(). + Like :meth:`expect`, passing ``async=True`` will make this return an asyncio coroutine. |