Can I use Expect on Windows without installing Cygwin?

Question

Expect is a module used for spawning child applications and controlling them. I\'m interested in Python and Ruby.

Answer 1

You can use the Windows CMD prompt.

You need to have Python installed in your Windows installation.

Open a cmd prompt and execute the below command:

C:\Users\xxx>pip install pexpect (if you have set the Python path in a system variable)

or

C:\Users\xxx>c:\python27\scripts\pip.exe install pexpect

Collecting pexpect
  Downloading pexpect-4.0.1.tar.gz (143kB)
    100% |################################| 147kB 1.2MB/s
Collecting ptyprocess>=0.5 (from pexpect)
  Downloading ptyprocess-0.5.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Building wheels for collected packages: pexpect
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pexpect
  Stored in directory: C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\pip\Cache\wheels\f2\65\89\09578bcd0efeabc7e2b0079cd62d3955c1477f2e55aa5031a4
Successfully built pexpect
Installing collected packages: ptyprocess, pexpect
Successfully installed pexpect-4.0.1 ptyprocess-0.5.1