Source: ptyprocess Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team Uploaders: Julien Puydt Section: python Priority: optional Standards-Version: 4.1.4 Homepage: https://github.com/pexpect/ptyprocess Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11), dh-python, python, python3-all Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/ptyprocess.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/ptyprocess Package: python-ptyprocess Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends} Description: Run a subprocess in a pseudo terminal from Python 2 Launch a subprocess in a pseudo terminal (pty), and interact with both the process and its pty. . Sometimes, piping stdin and stdout is not enough. There might be a password prompt that doesn't read from stdin, output that changes when it's going to a pipe rather than a terminal, or curses-style interfaces that rely on a terminal. If you need to automate these things, running the process in a pseudo terminal (pty) is the answer. . This package installs the library for Python 2. Package: python3-ptyprocess Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends} Description: Run a subprocess in a pseudo terminal from Python 3 Launch a subprocess in a pseudo terminal (pty), and interact with both the process and its pty. . Sometimes, piping stdin and stdout is not enough. There might be a password prompt that doesn't read from stdin, output that changes when it's going to a pipe rather than a terminal, or curses-style interfaces that rely on a terminal. If you need to automate these things, running the process in a pseudo terminal (pty) is the answer. . This package installs the library for Python 3.