Controlling an external program with Python

[Erno Kuusela]

>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Keating <keating at mech.uq.edu.au> writes:

    Tony> start the program, then send various strings to the program,
    Tony> read some output from the program then send some more
    Tony> strings to the program.

there are a couple of expect modules for python (so named because
there is an old tcl-based language called expect for doing just this).
parnassus lists 3 modules (<URL:http://www.vex.net/parnassus/
apyllo.py?find=expect>), i haven't
used any of them however...

  -- erno