SSH utility

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Mon Aug 11 08:22:54 EDT 2008


On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:25:38 -0700 (PDT), James Brady <james.colin.brady at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>I'm looking for a python library that lets me execute shell commands
>on remote machines.
>
>I've tried a few SSH utilities so far: paramiko, PySSH and pssh;
>unfortunately all been unreliable, and repeated questions on their
>respective mailing lists haven't been answered...
>
>It seems like the sort of commodity task that there should be a pretty
>robust library for. Are there any suggestions for alternative
>libraries or approaches?

You can find an example of running commands over SSH with Twisted online:

  http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/conch/documentation/examples/

Jean-Paul



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