ShutIt vs pexpect

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ShutIt		pexpect
	Project
-	Mentions	2
2,141	Stars	2,529
-	Growth	1.3%
0.0	Activity	6.3
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ShutIt

Posts with mentions or reviews of ShutIt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning ShutIt yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

pexpect

Posts with mentions or reviews of pexpect. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Pexpect fails to accept any passwords (7 lines of code)
1 project | /r/learnpython | 14 Feb 2022

Maybe copy/paste the login() function from https://github.com/pexpect/pexpect/blob/master/examples/passmass.py to see if it gives the same result.
How to launch a python console from inside a script
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 10 Aug 2021

Something like this: https://github.com/pexpect/pexpect/blob/master/examples/python.py?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ShutIt and pexpect you can also consider the following projects:

Fabric - Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment.

psutil - Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python

Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

Docker Compose - Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

SaltStack - Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt software package repository here:

letsencrypt - Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.

honcho - Honcho: a python clone of Foreman. For managing Procfile-based applications.

supervisor - Supervisor process control system for Unix (supervisord)