title: Start interactive SSH session from Python script
body: <p>I'd like to start an interactive SSH terminal from a Python script <strong>without</strong> using modules like pexpect or paramiko - I want to stick with what CentOS pre-installed Python provides me (to ease compatibility and deployment issues).</p>
  
  <p>I can run commands fine using the subprocess module, but cannot get an interactive terminal.  In Perl, I would just use backticks to achieve this, but am looking for the pythonic way of doing this.</p>
  
  <p>Can someone point me in the right direction?</p>
  
  <p><em>UPDATE</em> - based on @leoluk's answer, I used the instructions from <a href="https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html#replacing-os-system" rel="noreferrer">docs.python.org</a> to come up with: <code>subprocess.call("ssh ...", shell=True)</code></p>