SSH, remote login, and command output

[Spire 01]

Greetings!

I'm working on a Python program for a small LAN of Linux systems running 
Gentoo, and I need a little help figuring out what I need to do it.  So what 
I'd like to do is, from any given computer, log on to every other computer, 
run a certain command (which normally outputs text to the terminal), and 
store the output so I can use the aggregate statistics later in the program. 
  I would normally something along the lines of SSH to do it, but I don't 
know what I would need to pull that off in Python.  There's also one 
complication: the systems could be Gentoo systems, or they could be logged 
into Windows since they're dual booted.  Considering all of this, can anyone 
give me some recommendation as to what library I should learn how to use to 
pull this off? I admit, I haven't done too much in the way of networks, but 
if someone can tell me what I need to do remote logins in this way, I'll do 
what I can to make it work.

Thanks a million!
Spire

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