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      1 #!/usr/bin/env python
      2 
      3 """This starts the python interpreter; captures the startup message; then gives
      4 the user interactive control over the session. Why? For fun... """
      5 
      6 # Don't do this unless you like being John Malkovich
      7 # c = pexpect.spawn ('/usr/bin/env python ./python.py')
      8 
      9 import pexpect
     10 c = pexpect.spawn ('/usr/bin/env python')
     11 c.expect ('>>>')
     12 print 'And now for something completely different...'
     13 f = lambda s:s and f(s[1:])+s[0] # Makes a function to reverse a string.
     14 print f(c.before)
     15 print 'Yes, it\'s python, but it\'s backwards.'
     16 print
     17 print 'Escape character is \'^]\'.'
     18 print c.after,
     19 c.interact()
     20 c.kill(1)
     21 print 'is alive:', c.isalive()
     22 
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