= pexpect =

== Description ==

Pexpect is a pure Python module for spawning child applications;
controlling them; and responding to expected patterns in their output.

== License ==

Python Software Foundation License

== SPKG Maintainers ==

 * William Stein

== Upstream Contact ==
  

== Dependencies ==

 * GNU patch
 * Python

== Special Update/Build Instructions ==

 * pexpect-2.1 is shockingly slow for Sage (especially in the notebook)
   and I can't figure out why.  So we're sticking with pexpect-2.0 for
   now (which works fine for us).

Patches:
 * del.patch: put a try/except inside __del__, to get rid of lots of
   pointless warning messages
 * pexpect.py-isdir_bug_fix.patch: fixed bug in pexpect.py where it
   tried to run directories
 * env.patch: add env parameter to spawn.__init__() to run a command
   with custom environment variables (as in pexpect-2.3).

== Changelog ==

=== pexpect-2.0.p5 (Jeroen Demeyer, 13 January 2012) ===
 * Trac #12221: add env.patch to add env parameter to spawn.__init__()
 * Restore upstream sources, use patch for patching

=== pexpect-2.0.p4 ===
 * undocumented

=== pexpect-2.0.p3 (Michael Abshoff, January 28th, 2009) ===
 * further clean up SPKG.txt
 * add .hgignore 

=== pexpect-2.0.p2 (William Stein, January 23rd, 2009) ===
 * created proper SPKG.txt
 * fixed bug in pexpect where it tried to run directories