Re: Can Python replace TCL/Expect
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Re: Can Python replace TCL/Expect

From: Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 08:22:16 CEST

xinchenvn@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm learning Python. I don't know whether Python can do something like
> Expect can do. If yes, please show me how to do it.
> I want to do something automatically: open connection to a ftp server,
> get the welcome message on the screen (not in the packet). I can do it
> easily with Expect but I still don't have any idea with Python.
> If possible, can you introduce me some book or website that I can get
> infor about automation programming with Python

You'll probably want to take a look at pexpect:

  http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern@ucsd.edu
"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
 Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
  -- Richard Harter
Received on Sat Oct 15 04:12:23 2005