[Tutor] os module question

[Cameron Simpson]

On 02Feb2015 17:01, alan.gauld at btinternet.com <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
>On 02/02/15 13:46, maurice.horan at thomsonreuters.com wrote:
>>Basically I have trouble with two things:
>>1)      Get the server to take the hostname and use it to run a command against it
>
>os.uname() will return a tuple.
>The second item is the hostname

That gets this machine's hostname. The OP wants to use an arbitrary machine's 
hostname, since he's looking up an asset db. He needs to use the sys.argv 
array. (We he's doing as it turns out, so not to worry.)

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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