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ssh-python
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Bindings for libssh_ C library.
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Installation
Binary wheels are provided for Linux (manylinux 2014, x86_64 and aarch64), OSX (12, 13 and 14 for brew Python), and Windows 64-bit (Python 3.8+).
Wheels have no dependencies.
For building from source, see documentation <https://ssh-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#building-from-source>_.
.. code-block:: shell
pip install ssh-python
Pip may need to be updated to be able to install binary wheels.
.. code-block:: shell
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 provides Python bindings to the libssh C library.
Thread safe - GIL released as much as possible
Very low overhead bindings
Object oriented
Uses Python semantics where applicable
Raises low level C errors as Python exceptions
.. _libssh: https://www.libssh.org
FAQs
libssh C library bindings for Python.
We found that ssh-python demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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