I was writing a pexpect script to wait for (qemu).
child.pexpect('(qemu)')
didn't work.
ree = re.compile('\(qemu\)')
child.pexpect(ree)
worked.
In fact,
child.expect('\(qemu\)')
this just worked.
Strings will be compiled to re types
https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/pexpect.html
expect_exact() would not compile strings to re types.
child.pexpect('(qemu)')
didn't work.
ree = re.compile('\(qemu\)')
child.pexpect(ree)
worked.
In fact,
child.expect('\(qemu\)')
this just worked.
Strings will be compiled to re types
https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/pexpect.html
expect_exact() would not compile strings to re types.