I've written my first python program, and would love suggestions for
improvement.
I'm a perl programmer and used a perl version of this program to guide
me. So in that sense, the python is "perlesque"
This script parses /etc/hosts for hostnames, and based on terms given
on the command line (argv), either prints the list of hostnames that
match all the criteria, or uses ssh to connect to the host if the
number of matches is unique.
I am looking for advice along the lines of "an easier way to do this"
or "a more python way" (I'm sure that's asking for trouble!) or
"people commonly do this instead" or "here's a slick trick" or "oh,
interesting, here's my version to do the same thing".
I am aware that there are performance improvements and error checking
that could be made, such as making sure the file exists and is
readable and precompiling the regular expressions and not calculating
how many sys.argv arguments there are more than once. I'm not hyper
concerned with performance or idiot proofing for this particular
script.
Thanks in advance.
########################################################
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys, fileinput, re, os
filename = '/etc/hosts'
hosts = []
for line in open(filename, 'r'):
match = re.search('\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+\s+(\S+)', line)
if match is None or re.search('^(?:float|localhost)\.', line):
continue
hostname = match.group(1)
count = 0
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
for section in hostname.split('.'):
if section == arg:
count = count + 1
break
if count == len(sys.argv) - 1:
hosts.append(hostname)
if len(hosts) == 1:
os.system("ssh -A " + hosts[0])
else:
print '\n'.join(hosts)
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