Transitioning from Linux to Windows

[Akira Li]

chitturk at uah.edu writes:

> ...
> Ideally, I would like to set up the user on their Windows 7/10 system
> so that they can "login" to the ubuntu system (say putty) - change
> working directory (to where desired) - run the script (on the ubuntu
> system) - and scp the file back to the windows desktop.
>
> ("porting" the ubuntu script to anaconda(3) on the windows desktop IS
> possible (but it has not been as easy as I had hoped!) (django and
> programs like that do seem to provide a "GUI" to have python scripts
> run on ubuntu/systems - but the setup looks mysterious/complicated (to
> me anyway))
>
> I stumbled onto "paramiko" - is that a possible answer?  
> ...


You could use "fabric" http://www.fabfile.org/ to automate running shell
commands (such as python scripts) via ssh.