PIPE stands for Python Interactive Process Enabler.  It provides Expect-like
functionality for Python using object-oriented constructs.  PIPE was written
by John F. Croix (John.Croix@taveren.com or jcroix@mindspring.com).

This is version 1.0 of PIPE.  The PIPE distribution consists of the following
two files:
   * pipe-1.0.README (this file)
   * pipe-1.0.tgz (a tar'ed, gzip'ed file)
The source code and documentation can be found in pipe-1.0.tgz and consists
of the following:

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V1.0: Fixed a race condition when reading data line by line.  Sometimes the
      current data in the buffer wouldn't have a carriage return in it to
      distinguish an end-of-line.  The code would read more data from the
      subprocess.  The bug is that, even with this new data, there may still
      not be a carriage return in the data.  The old code simply tried once to
      get new data.  The new code loops until some type of error condition is
      detected (ie TIMEOUT) or until a carriage return can be found.

      Added functions MatchLineAfter() and MatchLineBefore() to supply patterns
      which should be matched after and before any other patterns when
      performing line-by-line pattern matching.  Originally the code used the
      patterns supplied by MatchAfter() and MatchBefore().  The problem was
      that it wasn't necessarily possible to use the same regular expression
      when matching line-by-line as it was when matching against the entire
      input stream.  Now the two are separate from each other.