[Python] Python Paramiko method paramiko.client.SSHClient.connect only receives files via...

Python's package Paramiko has the moehtod paramiko.client.SSHClient.connect to connect. It receives the private key as a file with the parameter key_filename.

ssh.connect(key_filename=key_filename)

For security purpouses I'm not having a file with my private key in my repository, then I'm using it as a secret variable:

key_filename = os.getenv("go")

but when I retreive the secret it returns as string, is there a was to pass the pk as a string variable and not a path to paramiko?

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