Working Force10 Paramiko example

user@host:~/$ cat test.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
import paramiko, time

RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE = 99999
CUR = None

class Switch:
    def __init__(self, ip, username, password):
        self.ip = str(ip)
        self.username = username
        self.password = password

        # Establish SSH connection
        try:
            self.connection = paramiko.SSHClient()
            self.connection.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
            self.connection.connect(self.ip, username=self.username, password=self.password)
        except paramiko.SSHException, reason:
            print "Could not connect to host %s, reason: %s" %(self.ip, reason)
            self.enabled = False
            return
        except EOFError, reason:
            print "Host %s disconnected, reason: %s" %(self.ip, reason)
            self.enabled = False
            return

        # Create channel
        self.channel = self.connection.invoke_shell()
        buffer = ''
        while not buffer.endswith('>'):
            resp = self.channel.recv(RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE)
            buffer += resp


    def test(self):
        self.channel.send("show version")
        self.channel.send("\n")
        buffer = ""
        while "e" not in buffer:
            resp = self.channel.recv(RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE)
            buffer += resp
            time.sleep(0.1)

        print buffer


if __name__ == "__main__":
    s = Switch( "10.1.1.1", "admin", "password" )
    s.test()
user@host:~/$ python test.py
show version
Dell Force10 Networks Real Time Operating System Software
Dell Force10 Operating System Version: 1.0
Dell Force10 Application Software Version: 8.4
Copyright (c) 1999-2011 by Dell Inc.
Build Time: Tue Nov 15 09:32:07 2011
E600i uptime is 3 year(s), 3 week(s), 4 day(s), 11 hour(s), 31 minute(s)

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