May 292008
Robey Pointer has made programming with SSH attainable for several years now. However, if you are slow to pick things up like me, the demos only get you about halfway there. I needed a little extra boost to understand how to use Paramiko. I just happened to run across the Command Line Warriors blog today which has this little tidbit. Not only is it brain dead simple to create a little ssh script with this, but looking inside ssh.py has given me a great demo that shows how to use the Paramiko suite for different things that I wanted to try. I just wrote a file transfer program in four lines. I’m sure the jokes on me for being a little dense, but I’m excited because this has given me the extra help I needed to start using Paramiko.