On 2012-04-18, tinn...@isbd.co.uk <tinn...@isbd.co.uk> wrote: > Richard Shea <shearich...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On a *nix box this is a reasonable bit of Python : >> >> cmd = "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i %s %s@%s '%s' > %s" % (key, >> user, dns, "echo CONNECTION READY", tmp_file) >> result = os.system(cmd) >> >> ... on a Windows box it will fail because 'ssh' isn't part of Windows. > > ssh isn't guaranteed to be part of Unix/Linux systems surely.
It's not absolutely, 100%, iron-clad guaranteed, but * it's generally a pretty safe bet * it's usually trivial to install if it's not there -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Clear the laundromat!! at This whirl-o-matic just had gmail.com a nuclear meltdown!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list