Bindings for libssh C library.

Binary wheels are provided for Linux (manylinux 2014, x86_64 and aarch64), OSX (12, 13 and 14 for brew Python), and Windows 64-bit (Python 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

See command execution script for complete example.

The library provides Python bindings to the libssh C library.

• 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 bindings
• 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