I'm working on a simple tool that transfers files to a hard-coded location with the password also hard-coded.  I'm a python novice, but thanks to ftplib, it was easy:
import ftplib
info= ('someuser', 'password')    #hard-coded
def putfile(file, site, dir, user=(), verbose=True):
    """
    upload a file by ftp to a site/directory
    login hard-coded, binary transfer
    """
    if verbose: print 'Uploading', file
    local = open(file, 'rb')    
    remote = ftplib.FTP(site)   
    remote.login(*user)         
    remote.cwd(dir)
    remote.storbinary('STOR ' + file, local, 1024)
    remote.quit()
    local.close()
    if verbose: print 'Upload done.'
if __name__ == '__main__':
    site = 'somewhere.com'            #hard-coded
    dir = './uploads/'                #hard-coded
    import sys, getpass
    putfile(sys.argv[1], site, dir, user=info)
The problem is that I can't find any library that supports sFTP.  What's the normal way to do something like this securely?  
Edit:  Thanks to the answers here, I've gotten it working with Paramiko and this was the syntax.
import paramiko
host = "THEHOST.com"                    #hard-coded
port = 22
transport = paramiko.Transport((host, port))
password = "THEPASSWORD"                #hard-coded
username = "THEUSERNAME"                #hard-coded
transport.connect(username = username, password = password)
sftp = paramiko.SFTPClient.from_transport(transport)
import sys
path = './THETARGETDIRECTORY/' + sys.argv[1]    #hard-coded
localpath = sys.argv[1]
sftp.put(localpath, path)
sftp.close()
transport.close()
print 'Upload done.'
Thanks again!