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1Launch a subprocess in a pseudo terminal (pty), and interact with both the
2process and its pty.
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4Sometimes, piping stdin and stdout is not enough. There might be a password
5prompt that doesn't read from stdin, output that changes when it's going to a
6pipe rather than a terminal, or curses-style interfaces that rely on a terminal.
7If you need to automate these things, running the process in a pseudo terminal
8(pty) is the answer.
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10Interface::
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12    p = PtyProcessUnicode.spawn(['python'])
13    p.read(20)
14    p.write('6+6\n')
15    p.read(20)
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