subprocess module is sorely deficient?

[Mike Hansen]

> I think the best solution would be to port Pexpect to windows which
> wouldn't be that difficult according to my reading of the code.  If
> only I had more free time!

Sage ( http://www.sagemath.org ) uses pexpect fairly extensively to
interface with all sorts of other systems.  We recently received
funding from Microsoft to do a native port of Sage (and all of its
components to Windows.  Part of this will most likely be a port of
pexpect to Windows.

--Mike