On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I did want to add some formatting for example
I getcha. This is really an HTML problem rather than a python problem, isn't it? What you need to do is output a table. FWIW, here's how i'd do it (assuming you've got HP-UX ruptime, since that's the only one i can find example output for [1]): http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/ruptime.py You can use this as a library, a command-line tool, or a CGI script; it'll automagically detect which context it's in and do the right thing. It's built around the output from the HP-UX version of ruptime; let me know what the output from yours looks like (a few lines would do) and i'll show you how to change it. The first key bit is a pair of regular expressions: lineRe = re.compile(r"(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+([\d+:]+)(?:,\s+(\d+) users,\s+load ([\d., ]+))?") uptimeRe = re.compile(r"(?:(\d+)\+)?(\d*):(\d*)") These rip the output from ruptime apart to produce a set of fields, which can then be massaged into useful data. Once that's done, there's a big splodge of code which prints out an HTML document containing a table displaying the information. It's probably neither the shortest nor the cleanest bit of code in the universe, but it does the job and should, i hope, be reasonably clear. tom [1] http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90743/ch06s02.html -- Science Never Sleeps -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
