#10295: Upgrading pexpect
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       Reporter:  SimonKing          |        Owner:  was
           Type:  enhancement        |       Status:  new
       Priority:  major              |    Milestone:  sage-6.7
      Component:  interfaces         |   Resolution:
       Keywords:  pexpect upgrade    |    Merged in:
        Authors:                     |    Reviewers:
Report Upstream:  N/A                |  Work issues:
         Branch:                     |       Commit:
  u/fbissey/pexpect3.3               |  a24eab3ce985874ab8445ed5e362bbeead76fd40
   Dependencies:                     |     Stopgaps:
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Comment (by leif):

 Replying to [comment:51 leif]:
 > Replying to [comment:48 jdemeyer]:
 > > Why do you think it's busy waiting? It looks like it's reading with a
 timeout, which is not busy waiting.
 >
 > Unless the timeout is `None`, it ''is'' busy waiting.
 >
 > With a larger timeout, it gets less worse, but is still busy waiting.

 Ok, it's not as bad as I first thought, since the loop is exited upon the
 first timeout (which is on the ''total'' time spent in `expect_loop()`,
 but also used in `select()`).  So it depends on what happens in the
 application upon timeout, and the timeout chosen.

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