Introduction ------------- Exscript is a scripting language for automating Telnet or SSH sessions. It supports a wide range of features, such as parallelization, AAA authentication methods, TACACS, and a very simple template language.
This release comes with many new features, and the documentation was also greatly improved. Please refer to the project page for documentation. A lot of changes were made since release 0.9.8, so 0.9.9 was added before the final 1.0. Hopefully this will be the last release before 1.0 stable. New since 0.9.8 ------------------ * The SSH adapter was completely reworked and should now be on par with the Telnet adapter. * The telnet adapter now supports negotiation. This means that a connection should now automatically choose a script-friendly terminal type. (e.g. one that uses no color control characters). * Exscript is now fully supported on Python >= 2.2. * SSH support is now optional. The protocol adapters are now loaded dynamically, such that SSH does not have to be installed if only Telnet is used. * The error handling of the parser was greatly improved, and more errors should now be detected at compile time. * Prompt recognition was further improved. * It is now possible to use \r and \n in strings. * Strings may now be concatenated using the "." operator. * Added "in" and "not in" operators for searching through a list. * Fixed: Escaping of some characters outside of code context did not work. * Fixed: Escaping quotes in a string would not work. * Added support for using $-prefixed variable names in strings. * Added the builtin variable "response", that now includes the response of the last command. * #-prefixed lines are now comments. * Fixed a bug that some operations would not work when accessing the iterator variable in the body of a loop tag. * Fix: In several cases accessing a variable would fail. * Added support for "while" and "until" loops. * Added support for "into" keyword. * Use friendlier thread names. Dependencies ------------- * Python 2.2 or greater * Python-crypto * Python-pexpect (optional, for SSH support) * ssh (optional, for SSH support) Download Exscript ------------------ Release: http://exscript.googlecode.com/files/exscript-0.9.9.tgz SVN instructions: http://code.google.com/p/exscript/source Links ------ Exscript project page: http://code.google.com/p/exscript/ Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/exscript Bug tracker: http://code.google.com/p/exscript/issues/list Browse the source: http://exscript.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
