implemented working externAgent wrapper

[progcomp10.git] / src / link / pexpect / examples / python.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+"""This starts the python interpreter; captures the startup message; then gives
+the user interactive control over the session. Why? For fun... """
+
+# Don't do this unless you like being John Malkovich
+# c = pexpect.spawn ('/usr/bin/env python ./python.py')
+
+import pexpect
+c = pexpect.spawn ('/usr/bin/env python')
+c.expect ('>>>')
+print 'And now for something completely different...'
+f = lambda s:s and f(s[1:])+s[0] # Makes a function to reverse a string.
+print f(c.before)
+print 'Yes, it\'s python, but it\'s backwards.'
+print
+print 'Escape character is \'^]\'.'
+print c.after,
+c.interact()
+c.kill(1)
+print 'is alive:', c.isalive()
+