Wakefulness script for work printer

printerpoke.py

import mechanize

# DEFINE PRINTER NAMES, IPs, AND DEFAULT STATUS (FALSE)
# FUTURE VERSION WILL REFERENCE EXCEL SHEET FOR PRINTER IPS FOR SCALABILITY
printers = [
    {'name': 'N1', 'ip': '10.3.16.32', 'status': 0},
    {'name': 'N2', 'ip': '10.3.8.30', 'status': 0},
    {'name': 'P1', 'ip': '10.3.16.31', 'status': 0},
    {'name': 'P3', 'ip': '10.3.16.30', 'status': 0}
    ]

# HANDLE ROBOT EXCEPTIONS
user_agent = [('User-agent',
          'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.79 Safari/537.36'
          )]

# LOAD METER READ PAGE FROM PRINTER, IF SUCCESSFUL SET PRINTER IS UP TO TRUE, ELSE FALSE
br = mechanize.Browser()
for device in printers:
    device["status"] = 0
    try:
        if br.open('http://' + device["ip"] + '/wcd/system_counter.xml', timeout=10.0):
            device["status"] = 1
            print(device["name"] + ' is up.\n')
        else:
            device["status"] = 0
            print(device["name"] + ' is DOWN!\n')
    except:
        print(device["name"] + ' is *probably* down.\n')