The Python Parallel Processing Paradox

Content How can I use Python to get the system hostname? Asked 9 years, 8 months ago Active 1 year, 4 months ago Viewed 525k times 698 I'm writing a chat program for a local network. I would like be able to identify computers and get the user-set computer name with Python. python hostname share edit follow flag 98 edited Sep 13 '16 at 16:00 Itay Grudev 5,455 4 39 76 asked Nov 24 '10 at 21:33 John 12.9k 10 40 63 add a comment start a bounty 11 Answers Active Oldest Votes 1064 Use socket and its gethostname () functionality. This will get the hostname of the computer where the Python interpreter is running: import socket print (socket. gethostname ()) V f9 share edit follow flag edited Feb 10 '15 at 23:02 the Tin Man 146k 30 192 272 answered Nov 24 '10 at 21:36 Alex 55.8k 45 143 174 70 well, that's not correct. It works for me offline and in home, but now I am a office and this returns a different host name. - DataGreed Jun 21 '12 at 13:39

Content There's a repo on Github containing some scripts used by a tech employee that his coworkers discovered after he left the company. Here's a summary of his shenanigans: xxx: OK, so, our build engineer has left for another company. The dude was literally living inside the terminal. You know, that type of a guy who loves Vim, creates diagrams in Dot and writes wiki-posts in Markdown... If something - anything - requires more than 90 seconds of his time, he writes a script to automate that. xXx: So we're sitting here, looking through his, uhm, "legacy" xxx: You're gonna love this xxx: smack-my-bitch-up.sh - sends a text message "late at work" to his wife (apparently). Automatically picks reasons from an array of strings, randomly. Runs inside a cron-job. The job fires if there are active SSH-sessions on the server after 9pm with his login. xxx: kumar-asshole.sh - scans the inbox for emails from "Kumar" (a DBA at our clients). Looks for keywords like "help", "trouble", "sorry" etc. If keywords are found - the script SSHes into the clients server and rolls back the staging database to the latest backup. Then sends a reply "no worries mate, be careful next time xxx: hangover.sh - another cron-job that is set to specific dates. Sends automated emails like "not feeling well gonna work from home" etc. Adds a random "reason" from another predefined array of strings. Fires if there are no interactive sessions on the server at 8:45am. xxx: (and the oscar goes to) fucking-coffee.sh - this one waits exactly 17 seconds (!), then opens a telnet session to our coffee-machine (we had no frikin idea the coffee machine is on the network, runs linux and has a TCP socket up and running) and sends something like sys brew. Turns out this thing starts brewing a mid-sized half-caf latte and waits another 24 (!) seconds before pouring it into a cup. The timing is exactly how long it takes to walk to the machine from the dudes desk. xxx: holy sht I'm keeping those Reply 4 10.3k J

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The code shows recursive implementations of addition and multiplication that would make any compiler burst into flames. That computer is just expressing what the CPU feels about running this code. Recursive arithmetic instead of using built-in operators? Must be what the client meant by "make it more elegant." Next sprint: implementing division by repeatedly subtracting 1.