Joe M wrote: > 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
What is db_run? What happens if you try l = dbping.db_alive() ?? Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
