Pexpect is a nice trick if you want to get off the ground quickly in interfacing another program, but the strategic goal should be to turn it into a shared library or develop a RPC call library that we can plumb into the source code. Your average scientific code is just a scanf/printf loop so it would be easy to replace those calls with our own.
I don't think that pexpect can be significantly better implemented, all the trouble comes from possible timing or buffering issues. At the core its a very simple process, its only difficult to make it work well on a large number of platforms. On Wednesday, December 26, 2012 5:13:45 PM UTC, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > I think it would be best to rewrite it essentially from scratch, in Cython. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
