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<h2 class="class">Type Message</h2>

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<a href="__builtin__.object-class.html"><code>object</code></a> --+
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        <b>Message</b>
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<p>An SSH2 <i>Message</i> is a stream of bytes that encodes some 
combination of strings, integers, bools, and infinite-precision integers 
(known in python as <i>long</i>s). This class builds or breaks down such 
a byte stream.</p>
Normally you don't need to deal with anything this low-level, but it's 
exposed for people implementing custom extensions, or features that 
paramiko doesn't support yet.
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  <th colspan="2">Method Summary</th></tr>
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  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#__init__" class="summary-sig-name"><code>__init__</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=summary-sig-arg>content</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Create a new SSH2 Message.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">        string
</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#__repr__" class="summary-sig-name"><code>__repr__</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Returns a string representation of this object, for debugging.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">        string
</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#__str__" class="summary-sig-name"><code>__str__</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Return the byte stream content of this Message, as a string.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">&nbsp;</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#add" class="summary-sig-name"><code>add</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class="summary-sig-vararg">*seq</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Add a sequence of items to the stream.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">&nbsp;</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#add_boolean" class="summary-sig-name"><code>add_boolean</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=summary-sig-arg>b</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Add a boolean value to the stream.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">&nbsp;</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#add_byte" class="summary-sig-name"><code>add_byte</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=summary-sig-arg>b</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Write a single byte to the stream, without any formatting.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">&nbsp;</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#add_bytes" class="summary-sig-name"><code>add_bytes</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=summary-sig-arg>b</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Write bytes to the stream, without any formatting.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">&nbsp;</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#add_int" class="summary-sig-name"><code>add_int</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=summary-sig-arg>n</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Add an integer to the stream.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">&nbsp;</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#add_int64" class="summary-sig-name"><code>add_int64</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=summary-sig-arg>n</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Add a 64-bit int to the stream.</td></tr>
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  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#add_list" class="summary-sig-name"><code>add_list</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=summary-sig-arg>l</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Add a list of strings to the stream.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">&nbsp;</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#add_mpint" class="summary-sig-name"><code>add_mpint</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=summary-sig-arg>z</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Add a long int to the stream, encoded as an infinite-precision 
integer.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">&nbsp;</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#add_string" class="summary-sig-name"><code>add_string</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=summary-sig-arg>s</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Add a string to the stream.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">        bool
</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#get_boolean" class="summary-sig-name"><code>get_boolean</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Fetch a boolean from the stream.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">        string
</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#get_byte" class="summary-sig-name"><code>get_byte</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Return the next byte of the Message, without decomposing it.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">        string
</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#get_bytes" class="summary-sig-name"><code>get_bytes</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=summary-sig-arg>n</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Return the next <code>n</code> bytes of the Message, without 
decomposing into an int, string, etc.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">        int
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  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#get_int" class="summary-sig-name"><code>get_int</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Fetch an int from the stream.</td></tr>
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</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#get_int64" class="summary-sig-name"><code>get_int64</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Fetch a 64-bit int from the stream.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">        list of strings
</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#get_list" class="summary-sig-name"><code>get_list</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Fetch a list of strings from the stream.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">        long
</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#get_mpint" class="summary-sig-name"><code>get_mpint</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Fetch a long int (mpint) from the stream.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">        string
</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#get_remainder" class="summary-sig-name"><code>get_remainder</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Return the bytes of this Message that haven't already been parsed and 
returned.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">        string
</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#get_so_far" class="summary-sig-name"><code>get_so_far</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Returns the bytes of this Message that have been parsed and 
returned.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><font size="-1">        string
</font></td>
  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#get_string" class="summary-sig-name"><code>get_string</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Fetch a string from the stream.</td></tr>
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  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#rewind" class="summary-sig-name"><code>rewind</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>)</span></code>
<br />
Rewind the message to the beginning as if no items had been parsed out 
of it yet.</td></tr>
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  <td><code><a name="_add"></a><span class="summary-sig"><span class="summary-sig-name">_add</span>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=summary-sig-arg>i</span>)</span></code>
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  <th colspan="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Inherited from object</th></tr>
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  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="__builtin__.object-class.html#__delattr__" class="summary-sig-name"><code>__delattr__</code></a>(<span class="summary-sig-vararg">...</span>)</span></code>
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x.__delattr__('name') &lt;==&gt; del x.name</td></tr>
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  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="__builtin__.object-class.html#__getattribute__" class="summary-sig-name"><code>__getattribute__</code></a>(<span class="summary-sig-vararg">...</span>)</span></code>
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x.__getattribute__('name') &lt;==&gt; x.name</td></tr>
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  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="__builtin__.object-class.html#__hash__" class="summary-sig-name"><code>__hash__</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>x</span>)</span></code>
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x.__hash__() &lt;==&gt; hash(x)</td></tr>
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  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="__builtin__.object-class.html#__new__" class="summary-sig-name"><code>__new__</code></a>(<span class=summary-sig-arg>T</span>,
          <span class=summary-sig-arg>S</span>,
          <span class="summary-sig-vararg">...</span>)</span></code>
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T.__new__(S, ...) -&gt; a new object with type S, a subtype of T</td></tr>
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  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="__builtin__.object-class.html#__reduce__" class="summary-sig-name"><code>__reduce__</code></a>(<span class="summary-sig-vararg">...</span>)</span></code>
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helper for pickle</td></tr>
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  <td><code><span class="summary-sig"><a href="__builtin__.object-class.html#__reduce_ex__" class="summary-sig-name"><code>__reduce_ex__</code></a>(<span class="summary-sig-vararg">...</span>)</span></code>
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helper for pickle</td></tr>
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x.__setattr__('name', value) &lt;==&gt; x.name = value</td></tr>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__init__</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=sig-arg>content</span>=<span class=sig-default>None</span>)</span>
    <br /><i>(Constructor)</i>
  </h3>
  Create a new SSH2 Message.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Parameters:</b></dt>
      <dd><code><b>content</b></code> -
         the byte stream to use as the Message content (passed in only 
        when decomposing a Message).
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=string)</i>
      </dd>
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      <dd><a href="__builtin__.object-class.html#__init__"><code>__builtin__.object.__init__</code></a></dd>
    </dl>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__repr__</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>)</span>
    <br /><i>(Representation operator)</i>
  </h3>
  Returns a string representation of this object, for debugging.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt>
      <dd>
        string
      </dd>
    </dl>
    <dl><dt><b>Overrides:</b></dt>
      <dd><a href="__builtin__.object-class.html#__repr__"><code>__builtin__.object.__repr__</code></a></dd>
    </dl>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__str__</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>)</span>
    <br /><i>(Informal representation operator)</i>
  </h3>
  Return the byte stream content of this Message, as a string.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt>
      <dd>
        the contents of this Message.
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=string)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
    <dl><dt><b>Overrides:</b></dt>
      <dd><a href="__builtin__.object-class.html#__str__"><code>__builtin__.object.__str__</code></a></dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">add</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class="sig-vararg">*seq</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Add a sequence of items to the stream. The values are encoded based 
  on their type: str, int, bool, list, or long.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Parameters:</b></dt>
      <dd><code><b>seq</b></code> -
         the sequence of items
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=sequence)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
<p><b>Bug:</b> longs are encoded non-deterministically. Don't use this method.
</p>

  </dd></dl>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">add_boolean</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=sig-arg>b</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Add a boolean value to the stream.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Parameters:</b></dt>
      <dd><code><b>b</b></code> -
         boolean value to add
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=bool)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">add_byte</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=sig-arg>b</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Write a single byte to the stream, without any formatting.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Parameters:</b></dt>
      <dd><code><b>b</b></code> -
         byte to add
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=str)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">add_bytes</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=sig-arg>b</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Write bytes to the stream, without any formatting.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Parameters:</b></dt>
      <dd><code><b>b</b></code> -
         bytes to add
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=str)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">add_int</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=sig-arg>n</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Add an integer to the stream.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Parameters:</b></dt>
      <dd><code><b>n</b></code> -
         integer to add
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=int)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">add_int64</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=sig-arg>n</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Add a 64-bit int to the stream.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Parameters:</b></dt>
      <dd><code><b>n</b></code> -
         long int to add
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=long)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">add_list</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=sig-arg>l</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Add a list of strings to the stream. They are encoded identically to 
  a single string of values separated by commas. (Yes, really, that's how 
  SSH2 does it.)
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Parameters:</b></dt>
      <dd><code><b>l</b></code> -
         list of strings to add
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=list(str))</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">add_mpint</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=sig-arg>z</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Add a long int to the stream, encoded as an infinite-precision 
  integer. This method only works on positive numbers.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Parameters:</b></dt>
      <dd><code><b>z</b></code> -
         long int to add
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=long)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">add_string</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=sig-arg>s</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Add a string to the stream.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Parameters:</b></dt>
      <dd><code><b>s</b></code> -
         string to add
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=str)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

<a name="get_boolean"></a>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">get_boolean</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Fetch a boolean from the stream.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt>
      <dd>
        <code>True</code> or <code>False</code> (from the 
        Message).
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=bool)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

<a name="get_byte"></a>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">get_byte</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Return the next byte of the Message, without decomposing it. This is 
  equivalent to <a href="paramiko.Message-class.html#get_bytes" 
  class="link"><code>get_bytes(1)</code></a>.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt>
      <dd>
        the next byte of the Message, or <code>'�'</code> if there 
        aren't any bytes remaining.
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=string)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

<a name="get_bytes"></a>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">get_bytes</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=sig-arg>n</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Return the next <code>n</code> bytes of the Message, without 
  decomposing into an int, string, etc. Just the raw bytes are 
  returned.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt>
      <dd>
        a string of the next <code>n</code> bytes of the Message, or a 
        string of <code>n</code> zero bytes, if there aren't 
        <code>n</code> bytes remaining.
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=string)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

<a name="get_int"></a>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">get_int</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Fetch an int from the stream.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt>
      <dd>
        a 32-bit unsigned integer.
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=int)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

<a name="get_int64"></a>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">get_int64</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Fetch a 64-bit int from the stream.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt>
      <dd>
        a 64-bit unsigned integer.
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=long)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

<a name="get_list"></a>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">get_list</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Fetch a list of strings from the stream. These are trivially encoded 
  as comma-separated values in a string.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt>
      <dd>
        a list of strings.
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=list of strings)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

<a name="get_mpint"></a>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">get_mpint</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Fetch a long int (mpint) from the stream.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt>
      <dd>
        an arbitrary-length integer.
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=long)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

<a name="get_remainder"></a>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">get_remainder</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Return the bytes of this Message that haven't already been parsed 
  and returned.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt>
      <dd>
        a string of the bytes not parsed yet.
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=string)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

<a name="get_so_far"></a>
<table width="100%" class="func-details" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"><tr><td>
  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">get_so_far</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Returns the bytes of this Message that have been parsed and 
  returned. The string passed into a Message's constructor can be 
  regenerated by concatenating <code>get_so_far</code> and <a 
  href="paramiko.Message-class.html#get_remainder" 
  class="link"><code>get_remainder</code></a>.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt>
      <dd>
        a string of the bytes parsed so far.
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=string)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

<a name="get_string"></a>
<table width="100%" class="func-details" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"><tr><td>
  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">get_string</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Fetch a string from the stream. This could be a byte string and may 
  contain unprintable characters. (It's not unheard of for a string to 
  contain another byte-stream Message.)
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
    <dl><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt>
      <dd>
        a string.
        <br /><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (type=string)</i>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>

<a name="rewind"></a>
<table width="100%" class="func-details" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"><tr><td>
  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">rewind</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  Rewind the message to the beginning as if no items had been parsed 
  out of it yet.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
  </dd></dl>
</td></tr></table>
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