Scripted input for ask() invocations #351
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Environment variables matching the form PIP_INPUT_* are treated as holding prompts, to which environment variables named as PIP_ACTION_* hold the responses. This allows sophisticated pattern/response matching when pip is called by an external tool.
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I would like to see a use case and some tests for this feature and just to note it would not work as is because of Don't know what people would think about this canned answers, but at first, the idea sounds good! Congratz. |
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Regarding example use case -- my automated deployment scripts export I hadn't considered Python 3; that's a good point. |
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Applied a slightly different patch, see #365. |
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When driving pip from another script, one occasionally needs to be able to provide feedback for interactive prompts which may come up. This patch provides a way to do that.