Passing arguments to & executing, a python script on a remote machine from a python script on local machine (using ssh ?)

[Ismael Farfán]

2012/9/19 ashish <ashish.makani at gmail.com>:
> Hi c.l.p folks
>
> Here is my situation
>
> 1. I have two machines. Lets call them 'local' & 'remote'.
> Both run ubuntu & both have python installed
>
> 2. I have a python script, local.py, running on 'local' which needs to pass arguments ( 3/4 string arguments, containing whitespaces like spaces, etc ) to a python script, remote.py running on 'remote' (the remote machine).
>
> I have the following questions:
>
> 1. What's the best way to accomplish my task ?
> I have researched quite a bit & pretty much everybody is using ssh.
> After googling a bunch, most people are using very complex workarounds to do this sort of thing.
>
> I googled & found people using several libraries to accomplish ssh to remote machine & execute a command on remote machine.
> paramiko ( now forked into the ssh moduke), fabric, pushy ,etc
>
> People who have used any of these libraries, which one would you recommend, as the most apt (simple & easy to use, lightweight, best performance, etc) for my situation ?
>
> 2. I would prefer a solution, which does NOT require the installation of extra libraries on the local & remote machines.
> If installing external librar
>
> 3. Has anybody been able to do this using os.system ?
>
> I tried this
>>>> import os
>>>> os.system ("ssh remoteuser at remote python remote.py arg1 arg2 arg3")
>
> This worked, but if the arguments i tried to pass, had spaces, i was not able to 'escape' the spaces.

How about something like this:
os.system ( 'ssh remoteuser at remote python remote.py "arg 1" "arg 2" "arg 3"' )

Cheers
Ismael


>
> Any & all explanations/links/code snippets/thoughts/ideas/suggestions/feedback/comments/ of the Python tutor community would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks a ton
>
> cheers
> ashish
>
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> ashish.makani
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