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Practical example Renderman job

#!/usr/bin/python


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


# The below few lines of code are to determine the OS of the machine that your running 
# this script from and then define the location of the Qube! API
if 'QBDIR' in os.environ:
	sys.path.append('%s/api/python' % os.environ['QBDIR']);
elif os.uname()[0] == 'Darwin':
	sys.path.append('/Applications/pfx/qube/api/python');
elif os.uname()[0] == 'Linux':
	sys.path.append('/usr/local/pfx/qube/api/python');
else:
	sys.path.append('c:/program files/pfx/qube/api/python');


# The below line of code is to import the above defined Qube! API
import qb


# Below is the main function to run in this script 
def main():
    
    # ----------------Start creation of Parent Job----------------------------------------
    
    # Below defines an empty list for combining all tasks in the dependency chain
    task = []
    
    # Below creates an empty dictionary to be filled by the following lines of code 
    job = {}
    
    # Below defines a label for the dependency to be used internally within this script
    job['label']= 'RibGenLabel'
    
    # Below defines the name of the Qube! job 
    job['name'] = 'Maya Rib Generation Job TUTORIAL'
    
    # Below defines how many Instances/subjobs the job is to spawn
    job['cpus'] = 1
    
    # Below defines the internal Qube! jobtype to be used to execute the job
    job['prototype'] = 'cmdrange'
    
    # The below parameters are explained further in the "Job submission with job package explained" page
    package = {}
    job['package'] = package
    job['package']['cmdline'] = 'sleep QB_FRAME_NUMBER'
    job['package']['simpleCmdType'] = 'Maya BatchRender (rib)'

	# Below defines the Agenda/Range of the job this will fill the Frames/Work section of the Qube! GUI
	# "0-60" is range 0-60
    agendaRange = '0-60'
    
    # Below defines the internal command required to generate the agenda 
    agenda = qb.genframes(agendaRange)
    
    # Below defines the job details for the agenda 
    job['agenda'] = agenda
    
    # Below appends the details of this task to the job dictionary for later submission
    task.append(job)
	
	# ----------------Start creation of Child Job----------------------------------------
	
	
	# Below creates an empty dictionary to be filled by the following lines of code
    job = {}
    
    # Below defines a label for the dependency to be used internally within this script
    job['label']= 'PRmanLabel'
    
    # Below defines the dependency of this job see below for possible dependency strings
    job['dependency'] = 'link-complete-job-RibGenLabel'
    
    # Below defines the name of the Qube! job
    job['name'] = 'Renderman Render Job TUTORIAL'
    
    # Below defines how many Instances/subjobs the job is to spawn
    job['cpus'] = 1
    
    # Below defines how many Instances/subjobs the job is to spawn
    job['prototype'] = 'renderman'
    
    # The below parameters are explained further in the "Job submission with job package explained" page
    package = {}
    job['package'] = package
    job['package']['cmdline'] = 'sleep 20'
    job['package']['simpleCmdType'] = 'Renderman Job'
    
    # Below appends the details of this task to the job dictionary for later submission
    task.append(job)
	
	# Below submits the task list to Qube! 
    listOfSubmittedJobs = qb.submit(task)
    
    # Below prints out a list of jobs that have been submitted by name 
    for job in listOfSubmittedJobs:
    	print '%(name)15s: %(id)s' % job

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