Interact with shell locally or over different connection types (telnet, ssh, serial, adb)
Project description
citizenshell is (or rather will be) a python library allowing to execute shell commands either locally or remotely over several protocols (telnet, ssh, serial or adb) using a consistent and uniform API. This library is compatible with both python 2 (2.7) and 3 (>=3.4) as well as with PyPy. For now, it focuses on POSIX platforms like Linux and MacOS, but may be extended to work to Windows based platform in the future. It is distributed under MIT license.
Roadmap
Version 1.0
Examples
LocalShell
you can use the built-in sh command for simple commands:
from citizenshell import sh
assert sh("echo Hello World") == "Hello World"
you can instanciate a LocalShell for more complex cases:
from citizenshell import LocalShell
shell = LocalShell(GREET="Hello")
assert shell("echo $GREET $WHO", WHO="Citizen") == "Hello Citizen"
you can also iterate over stdout:
from citizenshell import LocalShell
shell = LocalShell()
result = [int(x) for x in shell("""
for i in 1 2 3 4; do
echo $i;
done
""")]
assert result == [1, 2, 3, 4]
or you can extract stdout, stderr and exit code seperately:
from citizenshell import LocalShell
shell = LocalShell()
result = shell(">&2 echo error && echo output && exit 13")
assert result.out == ["output"]
assert result.err == ["error"]
assert result.xc == 13
TelnetShell
you can instanciate the TelnetShell for shell over telnet:
from citizenshell import TelnetShell
shell = TelnetShell(hostname="acme.org", username="john", password="secretpassword")
assert shell("echo Hello World") == "Hello World"
you can then do eveything you can do with a LocalShell.
SecureShell
you can instanciate the SecureShell for shell over SSH:
from citizenshell import SecureShell
shell = SecureShell(hostname="acme.org", username="john", password="secretpassword")
assert shell("echo Hello World") == "Hello World"
you can then do eveything you can do with a LocalShell. Beware that some SSH servers refuse to set environment variable (see documentation of AcceptEnv of sshd_config and documentation of update_environment of paramiko’s ``Channel` class <http://docs.paramiko.org/en/2.4/api/channel.html>`__) and that will fail silently.
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