[Omaha.pm] Fwd: [omaha] better than pyexpect?

[Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net>]

On Jun 28, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T wrote:
> At our last gathering Eli and others were talking about the Expect
> utility and the pyexpect bindings.  While I was going through my feeds
> tonight I came across a story, "Exscript Scripting Language -
> Automating Telnet"  http://debain.org/?p=196
>
> The author talks about using pyexpect, having some difficulties, then
> moving to perl and then eventually leaving perl and writing their own
> python module.  It has a number of features including threading.
> http://code.google.com/p/exscript/
>
> Anyone heard of this or used it?

I've used Perl's Expect.pm on several occasions:

http://search.cpan.org/~rgiersig/Expect-1.20/Expect.pod

Here's a little example I wrote:

http://omaha.pm.org/presentations/pscrawl_pl.txt

Thanks for hosting the meeting the week!

Cheers,

j