[Python] Execute several commands on Cisco switch via Paramiko - improve performance

I'm trying to login into a cisco switch and do some stuff there (configure a port for example). I can't use exec_command(cmd1 \n cmd2 \n) on cisco devices apparently... So I'm using a channel to send my commands on like so:

channel = ssh.invoke_shell()
channel.send("show arp\n")
while not channel.recv_ready():
time.sleep(0.5)
out = channel.recv(9999)


I don't like the time.sleep(0.5) and want something to dynamicaly wait for the command to be executed because sometimes commands take even longer than 0.5sec and that would slow down everything a lot. With exec_command(cmd) I had exit_status = channel.recv_exit_status()for example.

Is there a way around this?


Could I somehow listen to the channel and wait for the output to be like

CISCOSWITCH#


so that I know that I'm ready to send more commands or exit?


I cannot use exec_command, because that closes the channel and when my intent is to configure a port I have to send multiple commands in the same session. (I think that's how it works)

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