Expect -- or popen2 -- or what?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

I'm trying to communicate with an interactive program
which seems to be a bit reluctant to flush its
output... So when I use popen2, things just seem
to hang. It seems that expy and PIPE are both quite
out of date ... I've seen ExpectPy and it seems
interesting, but perhaps a bit more than I really need.

Is there a standard way of handling this? I can handle
the parsing of the output easily myself -- I just want
to get my hands on it :)

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