Newbie: need help with control loop

[Greg Ewing]

Shaggy wrote:
> 
> This was my whole question.  Where or what is host_inst.  In each case
> it will be different I can create the object, I just can't name it.

I think you want to build a list of instances.

   hosts = ['host1','host2','host3','host4','host5',
      'host6','host7','host8','host9','host0']
   insts = []
   for machine in hosts:
      insts.append(class_name(machine))

Then you can iterate over insts, initiating the operations,
checking for completion, etc.

Greg