Python Network Programming

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Here's the code for installing a Python package using Fabric.

Listing 6.4 gives the code for installing a Python package remotely as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition -- Chapter - 6 
# This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and Python 3.5.2. 
# It may run on any other version with/without modifications. 
 
from getpass import getpass 
from fabric.api import settings, run, env, prompt 
 
 
def remote_server(): 
    env.hosts = ['127.0.0.1'] 
    env.user = prompt('Enter user name: ') 
    env.password = getpass('Enter password: ') 
     
def install_package(): 
    run("pip install yolk") 

Fabric scripts are run in a different way as compared to the normal Python scripts. All functions using the fabric library ...