Radamand wrote: >> while serverlist: >> still_active = [] >> for server in serverlist: >> pinger = ping[server] >> if pinger.returncode is None: >> pinger.poll() >> still_active.append(server) >> else: >> pingresult[server] = pinger.stdout.read() >> pingreturncode[server] = pinger.returncode >> serverlist = still_active >> >> </F> > > Thats an interesting approach but, if the returncode for a given > server is None say, 20 times in a row you will have append'ed that > server to the list 20 times > > also, the line "pinger = ping[server]" would have to be extracted from > this loop otherwise your going to ping the same server repeatedly > until it answers...
did you miss that there are two loops here? the inner loop loops over the available servers, and add servers that needs to be checked again to a *new* list. that list is then assigned to the original serverlist variable. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
