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| author | Red_M <git@red-m.net> | 2019-07-07 20:47:10 +1000 |
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| committer | Red_M <git@red-m.net> | 2019-07-07 20:47:10 +1000 |
| commit | c8c85cf7f1cfe9d3fc727ad59cea5ecb877e147f (patch) | |
| tree | 6535e2032ba15eccb75592e435370f5eb1dbf336 /doc | |
| parent | 59e8768f8a9bbd213bc2fc5e063feb7115f13404 (diff) | |
| download | pexpect-git-c8c85cf7f1cfe9d3fc727ad59cea5ecb877e147f.tar.gz | |
Add doc note about RedExpect.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/api/pxssh.rst | 9 |
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diff --git a/doc/api/pxssh.rst b/doc/api/pxssh.rst index c9c80c6..c9c9d82 100644 --- a/doc/api/pxssh.rst +++ b/doc/api/pxssh.rst @@ -5,9 +5,16 @@ pxssh - control an SSH session *pxssh* is a screen-scraping wrapper around the SSH command on your system. In many cases, you should consider using - `Paramiko <https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko>`_ instead. + `Paramiko <https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko>`_ or + `RedExpect <https://github.com/Red-M/RedExpect>`_ instead. Paramiko is a Python module which speaks the SSH protocol directly, so it doesn't have the extra complexity of running a local subprocess. + RedExpect is very similar to pxssh except that it reads and writes directly + into an SSH session all done via python with all the SSH protocol in C, + addtionally it is written for communicating to SSH servers that are not just + linux machines. Meaning that it is extremely fast in comparison to Paramiko + and already has the expect enviroment that you expect to have. In most cases + RedExpect and pxssh code should be fairly interchangable. .. automodule:: pexpect.pxssh |