> Im trying to write some python code that will return information (file
> size, last modified ...) about files on a remote computer that I have
> 'no password' ssh access to.  Ive been able to write code that logs on
> to remote computers and I can issue a command using,

> os.system(ssh blah.blah.blah.org "ls -l myfile")

> but how do I store the information returned by the ls command into a
> variable.  The primary goal of this is to
> 1. check file size on remote computer
> 2. scp file to local computer
> 3. make sure file size of copy and original are the same

> any suggestions would be appreciated

> thanks
> gabe