如何使用 python 从服务器打开文件？

Question

I need to access and open a file on a server with python. I have a Centos server which I can access from terminal with ssh root@172.24.2.233 and enter the user password.

Question
If I have a file on the server in this path: /var/document.txt what do I write to access that path and open the document.txt on my local machine?

If the file was on my local machine, I could read it with this:

import glob

# for example if i want to see file in the folder
for f in glob.glob('/var/*.*'):
    print(f) # output --> document.txt
    # read file
    read = open(f, 'r')

How do I access the file if it is on the server? I do not want to download the file, edit it and upload it again.

Answer 1

from contextlib     import closing
from fabric.network import connect
user = 'root' # your SSH user
password = 'secret' # your SSH password
host = '172.24.2.233' #IP of your server
port = '22' #SSH Port
remote_file = '/var/document.txt'
with closing(connect(user, password, host, port)) as ssh, \
     closing(ssh.open_sftp()) as sftp, \
     closing(sftp.open(remote_file)) as file:
    for line in file:
        print(line)