[Tutor] basic python question/getting values

[Joe M]

I apologize in advanced as I know this is basic information, but I cannot 
seem to figure it.

I have a few scripts that will return a value ie here I am testing to see 
if a database is alive (script is called dbping.py):

def db_alive():
 	dbRunning = '0'
 	try:
 		con = pg.connect(dbname='xxx', host='localhost', user 
='xxx',port = xxx)
 	pass
 	except pg.InternalError:
 		dbRunning = '1'
 	return dbRunning

This should return a value of 1 if the db is not running else it will 
return a value of 0.

Ok, now I want to call this from another script and have it write 
to a file with the return value (and other values to be added later, but 
right now all I am interested in in getting the return values)

I tried this sort of thing but it doesn't work (I will be writing to a 
file later, but right now getting it to print the value of dbRunning would 
be nice)

import dbping
l = dbping.db_run(db_run.dbRunning)
print l

NameError: name 'db_run' is not defined

Thanks for any pointers

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