python libraries for ssh handling

python ssh libraries paramiko pexpect
yart picture yart · Dec 21, 2009 · Viewed 66k times · Source

I'm going to write first code for handling ssh commands on python and I did search over the stackoverflow and can see that there are several python libraries that can be used for handling commands passed through ssh, like paramiko, pexpect and perhaps some others.

Particularly, I will need to read content of the files from the remote server, copy files through ssh/scp, get output from remote server after starting the script on remote server.

Perhaps some experts could advice what library is better and specify advantages or disadvantages?

Answer

Tobu picture Tobu · Dec 21, 2009

Since you're not doing anything special at the protocol level, you presumably don't need the protocol to be entirely implemented in python, and you could simply run ssh/scp commands using the subprocess module.

import subprocess
subprocess.check_call(['ssh', 'server', 'command'])
subprocess.check_call(['scp', 'server:file', 'file'])

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