I have the need to write a couple of Python skripts that can login to Linux servers via ssh and do some “magic” there. Like, for example, restart a stopped snmpd daemon. Or something like that. From what I’ve read, the Paramiko module for Python will be my friend here.<\/p>\n
The problem is that those Python modules will be triggered from a monitoring server running on 64-Bit Windows 2008, and my daily workhorse and development machine is running 64-Bit Windows 8.1. Accordingly, I also prefer to use the 64-Bit version of Python. (Just because, there is no real technical reason for that at this point in time.)<\/p>\n
I found these websites indispensable when it comes to Windows-installers for certain Python packages:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/blog.newitfarmer.com\/python\/library\/10781\/repost-unofficial-windows-binaries-for-python-extension-packages<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.lfd.uci.edu\/~gohlke\/pythonlibs\/<\/p>\n
What you need from there are the packages named Base-13.2.11-<xyz> <\/em>and pip.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n In Windows, you should enhance your PATH<\/em> variable not only to include the Python installation directory, but also to include the Python\\Scripts directory as well – because then you can run commands like “pip install paramiko” from the command line.<\/p>\n Paramiko depends on the “Crypto” module, which it will implicitly load when you execute “import paramiko” in Python. A Windows installer for this package can be found here:<\/p>\n