The goal of Pyco project is to automates the interaction with systems and network devices with a convention over configuration approach.

Pyco is a python 3 library based on pexpect tools written by Noah Spurrier and others contributors.

For a quick taste this is the short story for the basic Pyco usage:

from pyco.device import device

myHost = device('ssh://willy:coyote@beepbeep.acme.com')

#send a shell command
output = myHost.send('uname -a') 

The output string is the command device response, in this case something like:

Linux cencenighe 2.6.32-30-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 21:30:46 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The device() argument follow the URI scheme syntax and allow telnet and ssh as communication protocols.

For a detailed introduction and pyco features read the PycoUserGuide