When Don first created [Expect], he assumed other languages would
incorporate bindings relatively quickly.  It's a testimony to the
package's polish that no substantial efforts were made with other
language bindings for many years; it's because his Expect has
seemed so perfect, not
for any lack of need other languages have.

By 2000, though, unpolished Expect-like facilities were available
for such languages as [Perl] and [Python].  In contrast to the
situation for [Tk], other languages have '''not''' created Expect
modules by linking against Don's libraries; instead, they've
written "from scratch" in more language-specific fashion.

Python has several Expect initiatives (just as it has a plethora of
Web servers, GUI toolkits, and so on).  Most advanced appears to be
Pexpect [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pexpect/] (but is it
''narrow-sense'' "pure-Python"?).








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