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Basic python job submission I. Single command

#!/usr/bin/python

# Below are required imports for the script to run
import os, sys

# The next few lines attempt to import the Qube API. If the path to the qb module
# is not in $PATH or $PYTHONPATH, we will attempt to find it by looking in known
# locations
try:
    import qb
except ImportError:
    if os.environ.get("QBDIR"):
        qbdir_api = os.path.join(os.environ.get("QBDIR"),"api","python")
    for api_path in (qbdir_api,
                     "/Applications/pfx/qube/api/python/",
                     "/usr/local/pfx/qube/api/python/",
                     "C:\\Program Files\\pfx\\qube\\api\\python",
                     "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\pfx\\qube\\api\\python"):
        if api_path not in sys.path and os.path.exists(api_path):
            sys.path.insert(0,api_path)
            try:
                import qb
            except:
                continue
            break
    # this should throw an exception if we've exhuasted all other possibilities
    import qb

# Below is the main function to run in this script 
def main():
    
	# Below creates an empty dictionary to be filled by the following lines of code 
    job = {}
    
	# Below defines the name of the Qube! job.  This is the name that will be 
	# displayed in the GUI and through the command line tools 
    job['name'] = 'python test job'
    
	# Below defines how many Instances/subjobs the job is to spawn.  Because we 
	# will be running only a single command, there is no need to request more than 1.  
    job['cpus'] = 1
    
	# Below defines the internal Qube! jobtype to be used to execute the job.
	# 'cmdline' tells Qube that on the backend, we will execute a single command line 
	# command.  This will be the same as opening a terminal/command prompt and typing
	# out a command.
    job['prototype'] = 'cmdline'
    
    
	# The below parameters are explained further in the "Job submission with job 
	# package explained" page
    package = {}
	package['cmdline'] = 'hostname'
    job['package'] = package
    
	# Below creates an empty list filled by the following lines of code.
    listOfJobsToSubmit = []
    
	# Below evaluates the jobs to be submitted and adds the to the above list 
    listOfJobsToSubmit.append(job)
    
	# Below calls the list of jobs to be submitted and then prints the job IDs for each
	# While it is not strictly necessary that one submits a list of jobs, it is a good
	# habit to start, so we will only submit lists of jobs.  It is, however, perfectly
	# acceptable to qb.submit(job)
    listOfSubmittedJobs = qb.submit(listOfJobsToSubmit)
    for job in listOfSubmittedJobs:
        print job['id']

# Below runs the "main" function 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
    sys.exit(0)