ptyprocess: Python interaction with subprocesses in a pseudoterminal¶

Description¶

Launch a subprocess in a pseudo terminal (pty), and interact with both the process and its pty.

Sometimes, piping stdin and stdout is not enough. There might be a password prompt that doesn’t read from stdin, output that changes when it’s going to a pipe rather than a terminal, or curses-style interfaces that rely on a terminal. If you need to automate these things, running the process in a pseudo terminal (pty) is the answer.

License¶

Ptyprocess is under the ISC license, as code derived from Pexpect.

http://opensource.org/licenses/ISC

Upstream Contact¶

https://github.com/pexpect/ptyprocess

Type¶

standard

Dependencies¶

$(PYTHON)
$(PYTHON_TOOLCHAIN)

Version Information¶

package-version.txt:

0.7.0

version_requirements.txt:

ptyprocess > 0.5

Equivalent System Packages¶

Arch Linux

$ sudo pacman -S python-ptyprocess

conda-forge

No package needed.

Fedora/Redhat/CentOS

$ sudo yum install python3-ptyprocess

FreeBSD

$ sudo pkg install sysutils/py-ptyprocess

Gentoo Linux

$ sudo emerge dev-python/ptyprocess

MacPorts

$ sudo port install py-ptyprocess

openSUSE

$ sudo zypper install python3\$\{PYTHON_MINOR\}-ptyprocess

Void Linux

$ sudo xbps-install python3-ptyprocess

See https://repology.org/project/ptyprocess/versions, https://repology.org/project/python:ptyprocess/versions

If the system package is installed and if the (experimental) option --enable-system-site-packages is passed to ./configure, then ./configure will check if the system package can be used.