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[Steve Holden]

vinu wrote:
> Hi all,
>   http://pyadmin.blogspot.com/
> THis is my blog and This is related to python utilities for system and 
> network administration.plz comment on this
> regards
> Vineesh Kumar
> 
The biggest problem seems to be the failure of indentation in the 
published code, which will make the code hard to read and impossible to 
copy-and-paste should anyone wish to use it.

I run code through a colorizer program before publishing it (do a Google 
search for "colorize.py") in my blog - see for example:

   http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2006/04/test-driven-development.html

With space indentation rather than tabs, it seems to copy-and-paste 
quite nicely.

The only other question I have is related to your use of strings instead 
of comments. Where you want them to be the docstring for a function or 
class or method you should have them at the first line of the body, as in:

def func(x):
     """This is the first line of a multi-line docstring.

     The second and subsequent lines, if any, should appear
     indented like this."""

You also seem to use strings rather than comments at the end of 
statements. It appears these have been added after the fact, since they 
introduce syntax errors, as in

sleeptime=15 """The time to wait for getting a response from the router"""

It's always a good idea to take published code and verify that it will 
indeed compile and run as published. It's so easy to make mistakes in 
any of the transcription steps. (Having written a book helps in this 
respect, as there are myriad ways that publishers can screw up perfectly 
good code and you learn *all* about them int he authorship process).

I'm sure that there are lots of net and sys admins who would love to be 
able to get their hands on these simple but helpful programs, so I'd 
encourage you to polish up your code and keep helping to make Python 
more popular.

regards
  Steve
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