[CentralOH] parsing Windows command line output

[Eric Lake]

Turns out this may not work because Microsoft does not always separate
the columns of data with 2 or more spaces. So it looks like I'm still
stumped on this one.

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Eric Lake <ericlake at gmail.com> wrote:
> I may have answered my own question. I know that this could probably
> be done in a more elegant way so I am looking for suggestions. Here is
> the code that I have come up with so far:
>
> data = open('file.txt', 'r')
>
> data.next()
> data.next()
> data.next()
> data.next()
>
> for line in data:
>    clusdata = []
>    line.strip()
>    info = line.split('  ')
>    for x in info:
>        if x != '':
>            x = x.strip()
>            if x .endswith('\\r\\n'):
>                x = x.strip('\\r\\n')
>            clusdata.append(x)
>    print clusdata
>
> data.close()
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Eric Lake <ericlake at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have been looking for a way to monitor a Windows cluster that we
>> have at work. I was really hoping for a good wmi class that I could
>> use from my XP machine to do it but I have not been lucky finding one.
>> I did however come across the 'cluster' command. I am thinking that I
>> could just call that from within my python code and parse the output
>> to get what I need. I want to get all of the data from the output and
>> then put it in a database. I can not see how to split the lines up
>> though. It would be easy if it was comma delimited but it seems to use
>> a varying number of spaces. My only thought is that I could do a split
>> on anything that is more than 2 spaces.
>>
>> The output of the command is in the attached file.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eric Lake
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Eric Lake
>



-- 
Thanks,

Eric Lake