title: Pexpect does not respect timeouts
body: <p>pexpect is not working with time outs.</p>
  
  <pre><code>import pexpect
  import sys
  import os
  os.system("""git config --global user.name '#{git_name}'""")
  os.system("""git config --global user.email '#{git_email}'""")
  child = pexpect.spawn ('git clone https://github.com/davidmontgom/rtbopsConfig.git')
  child.logfile = sys.stdout
  child.expect ('Username:*')
  child.sendline ('#{git_username}')
  child.expect ('Pass*')
  child.sendline ('#{git_password}')
  child.expect(pexpect.EOF, timeout=420)
  os.system('cd /home/ubuntu/workspace/rtbopsConfig; git checkout #{branch_name}')
  
  
  Receiving objects:  16% (1751/10655), 19.36 MiB | 876 KiB/s     KiB/s   
  Receiving objects:  16% (1751/10655), 20.64 MiB | 861 KiB/s
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50 STDERR: Traceback (most recent call last):
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50   File "/tmp/chef-script20121006-19825-5yog10", line 12, in &lt;module&gt;
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50     child.expect(pexpect.EOF)
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pexpect-2.4-py2.7.egg/pexpect.py", line 1316, in expect
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50     return self.expect_list(compiled_pattern_list, timeout, searchwindowsize)
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pexpect-2.4-py2.7.egg/pexpect.py", line 1330, in expect_list
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50     return self.expect_loop(searcher_re(pattern_list), timeout, searchwindowsize)
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pexpect-2.4-py2.7.egg/pexpect.py", line 1414, in expect_loop
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50     raise TIMEOUT (str(e) + '\n' + str(self))
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50 pexpect.TIMEOUT: Timeout exceeded in read_nonblocking().
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50 &lt;pexpect.spawn object at 0x7fbb24704750&gt;
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50 version: 2.4 ($Revision: 516 $)
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50 command: /usr/bin/git
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50 args: ['/usr/bin/git', 'clone', 'https://github.com/davidmontgom/rtbopsConfig.git']
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50 searcher: searcher_re:
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50     0: EOF
  103.4.112.50 
  Receiving objects:  16% (1751/10655), 20.64 MiB | 861 KiB/s   873 KiB/s   
  103.4.112.50 
  Receiving objects:  16% (1751/10655), 20.64 MiB | 861 KiB/s   873 KiB/s   
  103.4.112.50 
  103.4.112.50 after: &lt;class 'pexpect.TIMEOUT'&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I get pexpect to work?</p>