Pump a sine way into a local influxdb cluster

sine.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import json
import math
import requests
import sys
from time import sleep

IP = "192.168.0.2"
PORT = "8086"
DB = "test"
USER = "user"
PASSWORD = "password123"
TIME = 1
STATUS_MOD = 5

n = 0
while True:
    for d in range(0, 360):
        v = 'sine_wave value=%s' % math.sin(math.radians(d))
        ## without autentication
        #r = requests.post("http://%s:8086/write?db=%s" %(IP, DB), data=v)
        ## with autentication
        r = requests.post("http://%s:%s/write?db=%s" %(IP, PORT, DB), auth=(USER, PASSWORD), data=v)
        if r.status_code != 204:
            print 'Failed to add point to influxdb (%d) - aborting.' %r.status_code
            sys.exit(1)
        n += 1
        sleep(TIME)
        if n % STATUS_MOD == 0:
            print '%d points inserted.' % n