From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2003-12-12T04:37:19+09:00
Subject: Re: expect, rexpect and others

Ben Giddings wrote:

> Is there some historical reason why the result of a match is "buffer", 
> $1, $2, $3...?  To me, it would make more sense to do
>
> matchdata = regexp.match(buffer)
>
> return matchdata.to_a
>
The other thing I would really like to see in this library is the 
ability to specify an IO stream that will display the output of the 
process... Perhaps there already is a way, but couldn't see it.  What I 
did was add an output_stream= setter, and then in the inputData routine 
I just sent 'data' to the output stream, if it was set.

Does the library already support this functionality?  Is there a better 
way to do this?  (I'm thinking along the lines of the 'interact' feature 
of the python 'pexpect' library.)

-- 
Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu

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