ptyng

PTYng -- Pseudo-terminal utilities

Fork of pty aiming for enhancement of the full stdlib Python API.

As encountered in practice, ``pty.spawn`` requires ``KeyboardInterrupt``
or else to break hanging from ``select.select`` as in ``pty._copy`` then
raise ``OSError`` to ``pty.spawn`` and to return from the function.

Thus, ``ptyng`` introduced ``_is_zombie`` to check if the spawned child
process is already dead (or, a 'zombie'), through which ``pty.spawn``
will automatically return from function call as normal/trivial scenerios
expected.

Download

Standalone releases are available on PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ptyng/

Development

The main development takes place in the Python standard library: see the Python developer's guide <http://docs.python.org/devguide/>. In particular, new features should be submitted to the Python bug tracker <http://bugs.python.org/>.

Documentation

Refer to the standard pty <http://docs.python.org/dev/library/pty.html>_ documentation.

``ptyng.spawn`` now supports ``timeout`` argument. If the timeout
expires, the spawned child process will be killed and waited for.
Another ``env`` argument can be used to set the runtime environment
variables for the spawned child process, default is ``os.environ``.