From 12e67e8c755c2dd7539e3f0466481e80b24353a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Kluyver Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 11:56:08 +0100 Subject: Update README and PyPI description --- README.rst | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.rst') diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 19492c6..544d190 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -16,10 +16,12 @@ Pexpect can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh, ftp, passwd, telnet, etc. It can be used to a automate setup scripts for duplicating software package installations on different servers. It can be used for automated software testing. Pexpect is in the spirit of Don Libes' Expect, but -Pexpect is pure Python. Unlike other Expect-like modules for Python, Pexpect -does not require TCL or Expect nor does it require C extensions to be compiled. -It should work on any platform that supports the standard Python pty module. -The Pexpect interface was designed to be easy to use. +Pexpect is pure Python. + +The main features of Pexpect require the pty module in the Python standard +library, which is only available on Unix-like systems. Some features—waiting +for patterns from file descriptors or subprocesses—are also available on +Windows. If you want to work with the development version of the source code then please read the DEVELOPERS.rst document in the root of the source code tree. -- cgit v1.2.1