ssh-python

Bindings for libssh C library.

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.

pip install ssh-python

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

pip install -U pip
pip install ssh-python

Quick Start

See command execution script 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