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# ptyprocess: Python interaction with subprocesses in a pseudoterminal

## Description

Launch a subprocess in a pseudo terminal (pty), and interact with both the process and its pty.

Sometimes, piping stdin and stdout is not enough. There might be a password prompt that doesn’t read from stdin, output that changes when it’s going to a pipe rather than a terminal, or curses-style interfaces that rely on a terminal. If you need to automate these things, running the process in a pseudo terminal (pty) is the answer.

## License

Ptyprocess is under the ISC license, as code derived from Pexpect.

> http://opensource.org/licenses/ISC

## Upstream Contact

https://github.com/pexpect/ptyprocess

## Type

standard

## Dependencies

- $(PYTHON)

- $(PYTHON_TOOLCHAIN)

## Version Information

package-version.txt:

    0.7.0

version_requirements.txt:

    ptyprocess > 0.5

## Equivalent System Packages

Arch Linux

    $ sudo pacman -S python-ptyprocess

conda-forge

No package needed.

Fedora/Redhat/CentOS

    $ sudo dnf install python3-ptyprocess

FreeBSD

    $ sudo pkg install sysutils/py-ptyprocess

Gentoo Linux

    $ sudo emerge dev-python/ptyprocess

MacPorts

    $ sudo port install py-ptyprocess

openSUSE

    $ sudo zypper install 'python3${PYTHON_MINOR}-ptyprocess'

Void Linux

    $ sudo xbps-install python3-ptyprocess

See https://repology.org/project/ptyprocess/versions, https://repology.org/project/python:ptyprocess/versions

If the system package is installed and if the (experimental) option `--enable-system-site-packages` is passed to `./configure`, then `./configure` will check if the system package can be used.