Unspawned objects

There are often times where expect-send is needed on normal files, instead of a process.

The file object passed to an unspawned objects are assumed to be owned by another part of the process. This means that closing these objects does not close the file.

Members and methods

pid

Will always be zero since it is not associated with a process

pty

The name of the open file object

command

Always an empty string

Predefined unspawned objects

user_spawn_id
sys.stdin
error_spawn_id
sys.stderr
tty_spawn_id
/dev/tty

Examples

import select, socket
remote = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
remote.connect('localhost', 'smtp')
spawn_id = ExpectPy.spawnfile(remote)
select.select([spawn_id], [], [])
spawn_id.expect((ExpectPy.GLOB, "200 *\r\n", 1))
spawn_id.send("HELO localhost\r")
...
spawn_id.send("QUIT\r")
spawn_id.close()
remote.close()