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Re:Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.p... by locusofself on Saturday May 13, 2023 @11:57PM (#35935208)
How difficult do you think it would be to implement such a system in pure python?

This is neat, but it still leverages a lot of shell commands, ie ssh, find, mkdir etc..

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Re:Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.p... by basnijholt on Sunday May 14, 2023 @12:09AM (#35935246)
I attempted doing this initially. Everything is very doable except SSH. One would have to rely on third-party libraries to do this well.
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Re:Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.p... by sgarland on Sunday May 14, 2023 @10:15AM (#35938169)
Are you open to a single dependency [0]? Entirely native tooling is an admirable thing that I greatly appreciate, but parsing subprocess output is fraught with issues (I know, I've done this as well).

[0]: https://github.com/ParallelSSH/ssh-python

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Re:Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.p... by memco on Sunday May 14, 2023 @10:35PM (#35943288)
I’ve used paramiko for this also: https://www.paramiko.org/.
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