On Thursday, 28 June 2018 13:07:03 CEST Pan K wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> First off, thank you for the awesome library.
Hi Panos,
thanks for the python bindings. I think there are several out there but none
is really maintained. I hope this will not be the case for yours.
I will look into the issues if I find some time. But currently I'm busy with
getting the patchsets in which are lurking around.
Andreas
> I wanted to let you know about new Python bindings that have written for
> libssh. Code is athttps://github.com/ParallelSSH/ssh-python
> It is beta status and currently lacks SCP and server implementations.
> Everything else is implemented though there may be bugs.
> Only distributed as source code for now. Wheels - python binary packages
> that work across distributions - to follow.
> To install:
>
> pip install ssh-python
>
> Quick example:
>
> from __future__ import print_function
>
> import os
> import pwd
>
> from ssh.session import Session
> from ssh import options
>
> USERNAME = pwd.getpwuid(os.geteuid()).pw_name
> HOST = 'localhost'
>
> s = Session()
> s.options_set(options.HOST, HOST)
> s.connect()
>
> # Authenticate with agent
> s.userauth_agent(USERNAME)
>
> chan = s.channel_new()
> chan.open_session()
> chan.request_exec('echo me')
> size, data = chan.read()
> while size > 0:
> print(data.strip())
> size, data = chan.read()
> chan.close()
>
>
> The project contains libssh source code as-is and builds an embedded libssh
> to use when it is installed. The embedded version is the latest master
> branch and only that version is supported.
> This is so it can keep track with latest features that are not yet released
> and also because supporting multiple versions with different functionality
> and header modifications is too time consuming for a single developer.
> These bindings may not be fully usable yet for my own use case which is
> concurrent, non-blocking, use of SSH via an event loop system library in
> parallel-ssh but useful none the less. The capabilities, stability and
> speed of libssh are sorely needed in the python library ecosystem.
> Have noticed that not all parts of libssh are fully usable in non-blocking
> mode, particularly connect and scp. Expect some patches where issues are
> found in future.
> Relatedly, there is a patch for ssh_connect timing out in non-blocking mode
> that was reported a while back on this list, an issue I have also run into.
> Be happy to rebase and test it if it can be considered for merging.
> Hope these bindings are useful to you as well.
>
> Regards,
> Panos
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