Qfyilyi

I'm new to Python, looked unsuccessfully for answers in previous posts. Hoping you can help me.

I'm trying to use a script I copied off of this blog post.

Said script automates the process of starting SSH sessions on a given remote system and running commands on that system.

It imports a configuration file, from the import statement below I assume named conf, that supplies the script with login credentials, file paths, etc.

from conf import ssh_conf as conf_file

My issue is I am not sure how the conf file is formatted and it wasn't provided in the blog post. From the import statement I assume the file is named conf.py and the it has sections, one of them named ssh_conf

Can anyone describe how was that file formatted?

Gratefully,

A Python Newbie.

There are not really sections like that.

If conf.py was a file, then this could be made to work, by making ssh_conf a class within conf.py:

class ssh_conf():

    HOST="www.example.com"

But that's kind of nasty and feels like pointless abuse of classes.

My guess is that conf is actually a package. That is to say, a directory called conf containing a (empty) file called __init__.py and a number of other files, any of which can be imported from conf. One of these files would be called ssh_conf.py and that would contain things like:

HOST="www.example.com"

The overall structure looks like:

MyProject/

|-- my_application.py

`-- conf/

    |-- __init__.py

    `-- ssh_conf.py

If you aren't familiar with packages, the official documentation is a good place to start.