How to get Fabric to automatically (instead of user-interactively) interact with shell commands? Combine with pexpect?

Question

Seeking means to get Fabric to automatically (instead of user-interactively) interact with shell commands (and not just requests for passwords, but also requested user input

Answer 1

It's not either/or. You just need to run the fab command through pexpect:

child = pexpect.spawn('fab ')
child.expect('prompt:')
child.send('reponse to prompt')
... etc

The fab command is just like any other command, so it can be scripted through pexpect.