def create_scripts(commands, subbase="submit", sleep='1m'):
# Some interesting things we do here:
# 1) cat the script for the logfile
# 2) sleep to prevent overload
# 3) Return the exit value of the command
sleeps = linspace(0,parse_sleep(sleep),len(commands))
for i, (command,sleep) in enumerate(zip(commands,sleeps)):
filename = subbase+".%i"%(i+1)
f = open(filename,'w')
f.write('%s'%(os.path.basename(filename)).center(35,'#'))
f.write('\n\n')
f.write("cat $0;\n")
f.write("sleep %i;\n"%(sleep))
f.write(command)
f.write("\nexit $?;")
f.write("\n\n")
f.write("Output follows...".center(35,'#'))
f.write("\n\n")
f.close()
def random_sleep(sleep):
RANDOM=32767
# convert to seconds
sleep = parse_sleep(sleep)
return int(RANDOM/sleep)