PExpect Cross-Platform Alternative

[freebee007 at gmail.com]

Hello Steve,

I was wondering if you had working examples of your automated tasks in python ... I am asking because I am starting out in Python, and I believe I can save my company time and headaches by automating a lot of the tasks we have.
I would like to study your code and see if I can use it in our environment.
Basically, our tasks involve downloading the firmwares and then installing it, restarting the processes and making sure all the processes are running. Its on Linux servers and HP switches.

I cannot seem to find any example code to learn from ... I have IT guys who know Perl, but I do not want to go down that route.

Many thanks,

Zac.


On Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:57:39 PM UTC+1, Steve Holden wrote:
> Nathan Farrar wrote:
> > Hello Community,
> > 
> > Recently I've been automating lots of network operations tasks via
> > simple python scripts.  Originally, I utilized paramiko but found that
> > the module had issues working with cisco equipment.  I switched to
> > pexpect and things have worked wonderfully since (I've been running this
> > scripts in a Linux environment).  However, I was just tasked to get
> > these scripts running in a windows environment and to my dismay very
> > quickly realized that pexpect is not cross platform compatible.
> > 
> > Am I stuck, or are there solutions out there?
> > 
> It works pretty well under Cygwin (which also improves your Windows
> scripting environment no end). Any chance you would be allowed to
> install that?
> 
> regards
>  Steve
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