SFTP file transfer library

[Roger Binns]

Lothar Scholz wrote:
> at the moment i have a program that uses FTP but some clients want to
> use the FTP over SSH protocol.
>
> Is there a library that does this ?
> And also where can i find the protocol specification. I never used SSH
> very much and only know how to start a SSH shell from my windows
> client.

There is an excellent Python library named paramiko you can find
at http://www.lag.net/~robey/paramiko/

As for the second part of your question, try this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=ssh+protocol+specification

Roger