Writing to an InfluxDB server with Python3

Python-InfluxDB.py

#!/usr/bin/python
from datetime import datetime
from influxdb import InfluxDBClient

def func_log(unit, kind, value):
	client = InfluxDBClient(host='127.0.0.1', port=8086)
	client.create_database('DBname')
	client.switch_database('DBname')
	json_body = [
		{
			"measurement": "MeasureName",
			"tags": {
				"unit": unit,
				"kind": kind

			},
			"fields": {
				"value": value
			},
			"time": f'{datetime.utcnow().isoformat()}Z'
		}
	]

	try:
		if client.write_points(json_body):
			success = True
		else:
			print("Error writing to InfluxDB")
	except:
		print("Error writing to InfluxDB")


if __name__ == '__main__':
  unit = "Celsius"
  kind = "temp"
  value = 15
  func_log(unit, kind, value)
  

Be sure to update your influxDB server IP and port accordingly on line 6 👍