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Re: Passing arguments to & executing, a python script on a remote machine from a python script on local machine (using ssh ?)

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:50 PM, ashish <ashish.makani@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2. I have a python script, local.py, running on 'local' which needs to pass arguments ( 3/4 string arguments, containing whitespaces like spaces, etc ) to a python script, remote.py running on 'remote' (the remote machine).
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> 3. Has anybody been able to do this using os.system ?
>
> I tried this
>>>> import os
>>>> os.system ("ssh remoteuser@remote python remote.py arg1 arg2 arg3")
>
> This worked, but if the arguments i tried to pass, had spaces, i was not able to 'escape' the spaces.

Use the `subprocess` module instead (with shell=False). You then won't
need to worry about escaping.
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html

Cheers,
Chris

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Passing arguments to & executing, a python script on a remote machine from a python script on local machine  (using ssh ?) ashish <ashish.makani@gmail.com> - 2012-09-19 12:50 -0700
  Re: Passing arguments to & executing, a python script on a remote machine from a python script on local machine (using ssh ?) Ismael Farfán <sulfurfff@gmail.com> - 2012-09-19 15:29 -0500
    Re: Passing arguments to & executing, a python script on a remote machine from a python script on local machine (using ssh ?) Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2012-09-20 19:30 +0200
  Re: Passing arguments to & executing, a python script on a remote machine from a python script on local machine  (using ssh ?) Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2012-09-19 20:51 -0700
  Re: Passing arguments to & executing, a python script on a remote machine from a python script on local machine  (using ssh ?) Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2012-09-20 07:50 -0700
  Re: Passing arguments to & executing, a python script on a remote machine from a python script on local machine (using ssh ?) Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-09-20 09:19 -0700
    Re: Passing arguments to & executing, a python script on a remote machine from a python script on local machine (using ssh ?) Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2012-09-20 19:45 +0200

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