ssh connections?

[Joe Francia]

Laura Uixera Cotano wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm new in Python and I have to make a ssh connection to a proxy server.
> Can you tell me how can I do it? 
> I've tried to find something useful, but I didn't find anything in books or
> in the internet. 

Here is an example of writing an SSH client using Twisted:
http://www.twistedmatrix.com/documents/howto/conch_client

> I have installed the version 1.5.2 of Python. Do you know if I need to
> install a newer one to use ssh connections?
> If you can tell me where can I find more information, please tell me.
> 

1.5.2 is over 4 years old.  Unless you have specific 1.5.2 needs, you'll 
probably want to upgrade to 2.3 for a large number of reasons. 
http://www.python.org/2.3.2/

Peace,
Joe