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Bug#787342: RFP: ptyprocess -- Run a subprocess in a pseudo terminal from Python



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: python-modules-team@lists.debian.org

* Package name   : ptyprocess
  Version        : 0.5
  Upstream author: Thomas Kluyver <thomas@kluyver.me.uk>
* URL            : https://github.com/pexpect/ptyprocess
  License        : ISC
  Description    : Run a subprocess in a pseudo terminal in Python

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.

It is a dependency for terminado (RFP #787201), on which ipython's newer version (#780408) depends in its turn for its notebook.

Snark on #debian-python


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