On Aug 11, 5:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > for similar tasks, I use pexpecthttp://pypi.python.org/pypi/pexpect. > > spawning bash process and simulate an interactive session. Here sending ls > command, retrieving results and exiting. In the spawned process ssh or any > other command, is just another command. > > ------------actual session-------------------------- > $ python > Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 18 2007, 16:56:43) > [GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> > import pexpect > >>> c = pexpect.spawn('/bin/bash') > >>> c.expect([pexpect.TIMEOUT, pexpect.EOF, '\$ ']) > 2 > >>> c.before, c.after > > ('[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~\r\n', '$ ')>>> c.sendline('ls') > 3 > >>> c.expect([pexpect.TIMEOUT, pexpect.EOF, '\$ ']) > 2 > >>> c.before, c.after > > ('ls\r\x.txt xx.txt xy.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~\r\n', '$ ')>>> > c.sendline('exit') > 5 > >>> c.expect([pexpect.TIMEOUT, pexpect.EOF, '\$ ']) > 1 > >>> c.before, c.after > > ('exit\r\nexit\r\n', <class 'pexpect.EOF'>)>>> exit() > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > $ > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > hope that helps. > > regards. > Edwin > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of James Brady > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 12:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: SSH utility > > 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? > > Thanks! > James > --http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > The information contained in this message and any attachment may be > proprietary, confidential, and privileged or subject to the work > product doctrine and thus protected from disclosure. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or > agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. > If you have received this communication in error, please notify me > immediately by replying to this message and deleting it and all > copies and backups thereof. Thank you.
I second pexpect and the nice little module that comes with it ssh_session.py. Been using it for ages now! ~Sean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
