Creation of instances for pt-instances-management

create_instances.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import time
import requests
from humanfriendly import Spinner, Timer

instances_to_create = 50
url = 'http://anon.kmi.open.ac.uk/instances'


response_count = {}
with Spinner(label="Creating instances", total=instances_to_create) as spinner:
    progress = 0
    for progress in range(instances_to_create):
        r = requests.post(url)
        if r.status_code not in response_count:
            response_count[r.status_code] = 1
        else:
            response_count[r.status_code] += 1
        if r.status_code!=200:
            time.sleep(2.0)  # Let's give a break to the server.
        spinner.step(progress+1)

print response_count