Paramiko: read from standard output of remotely executed command

Question

so I was working with paramiko for some basic SSH testing and I\'m not getting any output into stdout. Heres my code.

import paramiko
client=paramiko.SSHCli         


        

Answer 1

You have closed the connection before reading lines:

import paramiko
client=paramiko.SSHClient()
client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
com="ls ~/desktop"
client.connect('MyIPAddress',MyPortNumber, username='username', password='password')
output=""
stdin, stdout, stderr = client.exec_command(com)

print "ssh succuessful. Closing connection"
stdout=stdout.readlines()
client.close()
print "Connection closed"

print stdout
print com
for line in stdout:
    output=output+line
if output!="":
    print output
else:
    print "There was no output for this command"