On Jul 13, 7:50 pm, Dan Stromberg - Datallegro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could start up a pty and do your own Pexpect-like thing, using > read/readline/write. > > However, this may not be portable to windows. Maybe if you get the python > that comes with cygwin, or build your own python under the cygwin
thanks for the suggestion. I will follow up on Noah's pexpect sugestion bellow. thanks for the input, cross platform is key with low overhead. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list