Re: [Duplicity-talk] Re: Problem with scp backend and --collection-status

[Charles Duffy]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Yes, that has been a request for quite some time.  Duplicity runs 
> these as subprocesses and interactive access to the console from a 
> subprocess is problematic, especially when dealing with Windows.  What 
> would be needed is an Expect-like package for Python that could 
> interact with the subprocess to provide the password.

I make frequent use of pexpect [http://pexpect.sf.net/], though last I 
knew it didn't work on Windows (due to a dependency on the pty module).

The Bazaar-NG project, looking for a cross-platform way to do SFTP 
manipulation, ended up switching to a pure-Python SSH implementation, 
Paramiko [http://www.lag.net/paramiko/].