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Created January 30, 2018 04:37 — forked from ksafranski/expecting.md
Basic principles of using tcl-expect scripts

Intro

TCL-Expect scripts are an amazingly easy way to script out laborious tasks in the shell when you need to be interactive with the console. Think of them as a "macro" or way to programmaticly step through a process you would run by hand. They are similar to shell scripts but utilize the .tcl extension and a different #! call.

Setup Your Script

The first step, similar to writing a bash script, is to tell the script what it's executing under. For expect we use the following:

#!/usr/bin/expect
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tjvananne / webcam-cv2.py
Created August 16, 2017 22:32 — forked from tedmiston/webcam-cv2.py
Display the webcam in Python using OpenCV (cv2)
'''
Simply display the contents of the webcam with optional mirroring using OpenCV
via the new Pythonic cv2 interface. Press <esc> to quit.
'''
import cv2
def show_webcam(mirror=False):
cam = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
while True: