[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to write a python program and call OS specific commands in it. > So basically, instead of typing in on the command line argument I want > to have it in a python program and let it do the action.
There are several ways to do so : * os.system() if you just want to launch a command (kind of fire-and-forget) * the subprocess module if you want to access stdin, stdout and stderr of the launched command > > for example. in my program I would want to call the ssh feature like > one does on the command line > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] .....etc To interact with an ssh process , there is a great module called pexpect (featuring some examples of how to handle ssh process in python) http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/ OT : paramiko is a module to handle the SSH2 protocol in python http://www.lag.net/paramiko/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
