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Check uptime and version whith ftplib (Python recipe) by h-kan
ActiveState Code (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576581/)

My first program ever and it is written in python. I'm sure it's ful of buggs and flaws but it's tested and the code works... I hope someone could help me improve the code.

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#!/usr/bin/python
# Check which version and uptime on the clients 

import os
import sys
import ftplib

hosts = ["192.168.15.101",
         "172.16.104.19",
         "192.168.1.111",
         "192.168.1.112",
         "172.16.104.21",
         "192.168.1.113",
         "192.168.1.114",
         "192.168.15.100",
         "172.16.104.16",
         "192.168.1.115",
	 "192.168.1.116",
	 "10.11.3.130"]

## Download /etc/borderlineversion and print the content of it

def getversion(ftp):
    file = "borderlineversion"
    ftp.cwd("/etc")
    ftp.retrbinary("RETR " + file, open(file, "wb").write)
    file = open("borderlineversion")
    for line in file:
        print ("Version: " +line.strip())

## Download /proc/uptime and than parse out the time from it and convert it to
## float and dived with 3600

def getuptime(ftp):
    file = "uptime"
    ftp.cwd("/proc")
    ftp.retrbinary("RETR " + file, open(file, "wb").write)
    file = open("uptime")
    for line in file:
        time = line.split()[0]
        timefloat = float(time)
        uptime = timefloat / 3600
        print "Uptime: ", "%.2f" % uptime, "timmar\n"

## Loop through the list of hosts
for x in hosts:
    print "Hosts: ", x
    try:
        ftp = ftplib.FTP(x)
        ftp.login("****", "****")
    except ftplib.error_perm, e:
        print "Login failed %s" % e
        sys.exit()
    except socket.error, e:
        print "Connection failed %s" % e
        sys.exit()
    getversion(ftp)
    getuptime(ftp)

## clean up after all the work

    ftp.close()
    os.remove("borderlineversion")
    os.remove("uptime")

2 comments

Louis RIVIERE 15 years, 4 months ago  # | flag

Hi,
here's some suggestions:

  • file is a bif (until 3.0) ; don't use reserved name (bif, keyword ...) for your variables.

  • Keep the "executable/main" and the "library/reusable" parts separated.
    The main loop (and the hosts list) should be in a " if __name__=='__main__': " block, or maybe in another module.

  • Don't mix the "processing" and the "interface" parts.
    The get* functions are the processing part hence they shouldn't contain any print statment, as printing is part of the user interface.

  • Functions (and objects, and modules) are about "reusablity" and "maintainablity".
    The get* functions are very much alike, you sould get what can be factorized out of those.
    You could do a, say, def ftp_realines(ftp, file_name): kinda function which would return an iterable.

h-kan (author) 15 years, 4 months ago  # | flag

Thank you so much for taking you time helping me out Louis! Will try to rewrite the code in a more "right way" and I will consider all you inputs when doing it.