A dash tx spammer

Dashpylib.py

import os
from subprocess import check_output
from time import sleep
from json import loads
from shlex import split
#run this module while ./dashd is running
class Dashpylib:


    def __init__(self, dir):
        #check if global var, dir has ./dash-cli in the directory dir is pointing at
        assert (not os.path.isfile('./dash-cli')), "global var 'dir', is not pointing toward a directory with ./dash-cli in it. or is file is under a different name? "
        self.dir = dir


    def command(self, arg):
        #splits args into individual strings to work with shell syntax, using shlex
        splitArg = arg.split()
        x = True
        while x:
            sleep(.1)
            turp = check_output(splitArg, shell=False, cwd=self.dir, )
            if turp == None:
                pass
            else:
                x = False
                new = turp.translate(None, "\n")
                try:
                    return loads(new)
                except: #if json object can't be decoded, return it anyways
                    return new

gen.py

from Dashpylib import Dashpylib
import time
import sys

#put directory where a dash-cli is pointing at
Pydash = Dashpylib(dir="/home/nova/Desktop/dashcore-0.12.1/bin")
counter = 0
sleepCont = 0
while True:
    try:
        addresses = "ya55cCV4LtmDoW3ESYfCnGbMFgNfiQwF4z"
        #addresses = Pydash.command("./dash-cli getnewaddress")
        Pydash.command("./dash-cli instantsendtoaddress " + addresses + " 1.2")
        time.sleep(.3)
        print "| ", #each | is one tx, pretty right?
        counter += 1
        sleepCont += 1

    except:
        time.sleep(.5)
    #if counter > 5000:
        #Pydash.command("./dash-cli stop")
        #Pydash.command("./dash-cli sendtoaddress " + addresses + " 500")
        #print "done!"
        #sys.exit()
    if sleepCont > 22:
        print "sleeping!"
        sleepCont = 0
        time.sleep(2)