ssh-python

Bindings for libssh_ C library.

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Installation

Binary wheels are provided for Linux (manylinux 2010), OSX (10.14 and 10.15 for brew Python), and Windows 64-bit (Python 3.6/3.7/3.8).

Wheels have no dependencies.

For building from source, see documentation <https://ssh-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#building-from-source>_.

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pip install ssh-python

Pip may need to be updated to be able to install binary wheels.

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pip install -U pip pip install ssh-python

Quick Start

See command execution script <https://github.com/ParallelSSH/ssh-python/blob/master/examples/exec.py>_ for complete example.

Features

The library uses Cython_ based native code extensions as wrappers to libssh.

• Thread safe - GIL released as much as possible

  • libssh threading limitations apply - anything not supported in C is not supported in Python
• Very low overhead thin wrapper

• Object oriented

  • Memory freed automatically and safely as objects are garbage collected by Python

• Uses Python semantics where applicable

  • channel/file handle context manager support
  • channel/file handle iterator support
• Raises low level C errors as Python exceptions

.. _libssh: https://www.libssh.org .. _Cython: https://www.cython.org