On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 04:04:47 -0800 (PST),
Jack Lobingier , in
 wrote:

> I have an SCP script that auto completes just fine from the terminal
> window in Pi.  When I use either subprocess or os to try and have
> it run under Python it does not do the file transfer from Pi to my
> Ubuntu machine.  What am I doing wrong?  Here is the script:
>
>  from subprocess import call
>  cmd='scp -i id_rsa sample.txt jack@192.168.1.103 /home/jack/pi_data'
>  call (cmd.split ())

I'm guessing, but since it works from the command line but not from a
non-interactive mode, you might try this: scp -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa

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