I am running CentOS7 and have installed pexpect in Python3.5. However, when I call any of the methods it is returning an error stating the attribute does not exist. Any ideas why this is occurring? I read that it could be due to a file name pexpect.py in the directory but I do NOT have a file called pexpect.py in the same directory.
$ pip3.5 freeze | grep pexpect
pexpect==4.2.1
Example Code:
# This connects to the openbsd ftp site and
# downloads the recursive directory listing.
import pexpect
child = pexpect.spawn('ftp ftp.openbsd.org')
child.expect('Name .*: ')
child.sendline('anonymous')
child.expect('Password:')
child.sendline('[email protected]')
child.expect('ftp> ')
child.sendline('lcd /tmp')
child.expect('ftp> ')
child.sendline('cd pub/OpenBSD')
child.expect('ftp> ')
child.sendline('get README')
child.expect('ftp> ')
child.sendline('bye')
Error:
CentOS7 Virtual Machine Error:
/usr/local/bin/python3.5 /media/sf_PycharmProjects/MyPyScripts/Tutorials/input_cmds
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/media/sf_PycharmProjects/MyPyScripts/Tutorials/input_cmds", line 4, in <module>
child = pexpect.spawn('ftp ftp.openbsd.org')
AttributeError: module 'pexpect' has no attribute 'spawn'
Windows Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/home/PycharmProjects/PyCAT/Current_Version/SFTP/testsftp.py", line 4, in <module>
child = pexpect.spawn('ftp ftp.openbsd.org')
AttributeError: module 'pexpect' has no attribute 'spawn'
Pexpect Dir:
>>> import pexpect
>>> dir(pexpect)
['__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__']
Well, for the Windows Error I can tell you that Pexpect.spawn doesn't work on windows. This has to do something with pypi that provides some modules only on linux systems, and spawn uses one of those parts.
On Windows you have to use PopenSpawn instead.