libssh C library bindings for 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>
_.
.. 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 uses Cython
_ based native code extensions as wrappers to libssh
.
Thread safe - GIL released as much as possible
Very low overhead thin wrapper
Object oriented
Uses Python semantics where applicable
Raises low level C errors as Python exceptions
.. _libssh: https://www.libssh.org .. _Cython: https://www.cython.org