[Fab-user] Reading a remote file into memory

[Jon Dufresne]

Hi,

What is considered the best way to read a remote file into memory to
be used by Python or Fabric? Should I shell out to cat on the server
"contents = run('cat /path/to/file')" or is there a better way?

My Fabric file requires parsing a file to continue other operations on
the server.

Thanks,
Jon