Remotely run python script consisting of multiple files via ssh

Question

I want to run a python script remotely via ssh. For a single script this would be something like this:

ssh user@machine python test.py

If my python program consists of multiple files, I'm out of luck with this. As Python can execute zip-files, I created one and it runs perfectly on my local system:

python test.zip

Over ssh:

ssh user@machine python < test.zip

I got the error message "SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with...". Both files in the archive start with "-- coding: utf-8 --".

What do I have to do to make this work?

Answer 1

The basic problem with

ssh user@machine python < test.zip

is that test.zip is sent to ssh instead of python.

The solution in stack-overflow might work, if you'll implement the python-script mentioned there (copied below):

#!/usr/bin/python 

import sys
import os
import zipfile
import StringIO
import zipimport
import time

sys.path.append('/tmp')

class SinEater(object):
    def __init__(self):
        tmp = str(int(time.time()*100)) + '.zip'
        f = open(tmp, 'w')
        f.write(sys.stdin.read(1024*64)) # 64kb limit
        f.close()
        try:
            z = zipimport.zipimporter(tmp)
            z.load_module('foo')

        except:
            pass

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print 'herp derp'
    s = SinEater()

Save it as zip_parse_script.py on the remote machine and will execute your command using

test.zip | ssh user@machine python /path_to_python_script/zip_parse_script.py