Too difficult to change ciphers, set ssh options in high-level API about paramiko HOT 2 OPEN

I just ran into this as well: I'm currently leaning in favor of the third option so you could simple do something like client.connect(transport_options={…}) to pass in kwargs. I'm using this monstrosity::

            # See https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/issues/50 for why we can't do something sane like this:
            # client.get_transport().get_security_options().ciphers = ciphers
            # Release the monkey:
            from paramiko.transport import Transport
            Transport._preferred_ciphers = ciphers + Transport._preferred_ciphers            

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I think this is definitely something that plagues the library overall - prior development didn't really prioritize being "Pythonic" or otherwise easy to use.

I'm redoing my Fabric library which is a layer on top of Paramiko, soon; when I do so I'll be taking a closer look at the APIs in Paramiko and hopefully rearranging things or at least providing additional glue & ability to override in a non awful fashion.

Leaving this open as kind of a pointer to some basic starting points.

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