Question

I want to connect to and execute a process on a remote server using Python. I want to be able to get the return code and stderr (if any) of the process. Has anyone ever done anything like this before. I have done it with ssh, but I want to do it from Python script.

Cheers.

Answer 1

Well, you can call ssh from python…

import subprocess
ret = subprocess.call(["ssh", "user@host", "program"]);

# or, with stderr:
prog = subprocess.Popen(["ssh", "user@host", "program"], stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
errdata = prog.communicate()[1]