Any reason you can't use facter the command line?
E.g. call in python commands.getstatusoutput("facter")On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:41 AM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 08:54 -0700, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Matt Wallace >> <li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We're writing a few scripts at the moment that could really >> make use of >> Facter, however the vast majority of them team (including my >> self!) are not >> proficient in Ruby, however they are highly proficient in >> other languages such >> as (dare I say it!) Python. >> >> Is there (or are there any plans to!) release bindings for >> other languages to >> enable facts to be used in scripts other than puppet. >> >> >> This is on the Facter roadmap, but I don't have a rough date for you. >> >> >> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2157 is the bug you should watch >> if you want to help out or just keep up to date on progress. >> >> >> Feedback in that bug log more than appreciated. > > Hi Nigel, > > I'm not sure I've explained myself fully here, so apologies for that. > > I'm after a way to access the facts in a language other that Ruby, not > create them. > > For example a python script that went something along the lines of: > > ==================== > import facter > > proc1 = facter.facts['processor_0'] > > print u'The first processor in this system is %s' % proc1 > =================== > > That's a vary basic example, however as I've already got a script that > creates custom > facts from the metadata in our provisioning system, I'm not worried > about creating the > facts, I just want to be able to access this incredible wealth of > information across my > various scripts (most of which are/will be in python) regardless of > language. > > I love ruby, and I'm trying to learn it, but the truth is that me and my > team don't > really have time to learn another language on top of our day jobs! > > Thanks in advance, > > Matt > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
