Top-level functions

[kimgr]

I'd like to add two utility functions to the scp module -- get and put, something like;

def get(transport, remote_path, local_path='',
        recursive=False, preserve_times=False):
     return SCPClient(transport).get(...)

In many one-off use cases, creating an SCPClient object is more syntactic noise than necessary.

I'd be happy to work on patches if this sounds reasonable.

[remram44]

SCPClient(transport).get(...) is not that much more to write.

I agree that this makes sense conceptually, but the truth is that SCPClient closes the channel after each get() or put() invocation so there is no real point in writing the proper with SCPClient(...) as client: client.get(...) instead of the chained SCPClient(...).get(...).