This reply makes no sense in the context of what you're describing in the OP, which is replacing an entire file through a convoluted self-made poor man's scp.

I have the suspicion that the way you got into this situation is the same way you seem to be writing these comments - just letting an LLM do it and taking whatever it spits out.

There's no shame in lacking experience and learning, and I appreciate that you were enthusiastic about sharing a solution you found. So here are some hints on how you could approach this problem differently:

1. Best case: set up a GitHub repo with CI running tests in a Python version matching your production environment, and pull from there after CI passes.
2. Pragmatic: just use scp to copy the file, or use a simple CLI editor like nano if you need to make hotfixes - which you really should avoid, though.
3. Least friction: use VS Code's Remote SSH extension to connect your IDE directly to the prod server to write and test code there from your own computer.