Startup script for my mac. Mount shares and start applications

startup.py

#!/usr/bin/python

"""Startup script."""

import os
from subprocess import check_output


DRIVE_PARENT = '/Users/myusername/Shares'

DRIVES = ['Download',
          'Movies',
          'TV',
          'USBDisk1',
          'USBDisk2', ]

SABNZND_PARENT = '/Applications/SABnzbd.app/Contents/MacOS'

APPS = [['SABnzbd', 'SABnzbd', ],
        ['CouchPotato', 'CouchPotato'],
        ['Sonarr', 'mono'],
        ['Deluge', 'deluge'], ]


def map_drive(this_drive):
    """Check if a drive is mounted, and if not mount it."""
    drive_abs_path = '%s/%s' % (DRIVE_PARENT, this_drive)
    if os.path.isdir(drive_abs_path):
        if os.listdir(drive_abs_path) == []:
            mount_drive(this_drive, drive_abs_path)
            print 'Mounted drive %s.' % drive_abs_path
        else:
            print '%s is already mounted.' % drive_abs_path
    else:
        os.mkdir('%s' % drive_abs_path)
        mount_drive(this_drive, drive_abs_path)
        print 'Mounted drive %s.' % drive_abs_path


def mount_drive(m_drive, m_drive_abs_path):
    """Mount the drive."""
    try:
        os.system('mount_smbfs //admin:brandon@nasa/%s %s' % (m_drive,
                                                              m_drive_abs_path))
    except:
        raise Exception('Could not mount drives!')


def start_app(this_app):
    """Start an application."""
    app_name = this_app[0]
    app_pid_name = this_app[1]
    try:
        app_pid = check_output('pgrep %s' % app_pid_name, shell=True).strip('\r\n')
    except:
        app_pid = False

    if app_pid:
        print '%s is already running. PID = %s' % (app_name, app_pid)
    else:
        if app_name == 'SABnzbd':  # Special circumstance for SABnzbd
            app_full_name = '%s/%s' % (SABNZND_PARENT, app_name)
        else:
            app_full_name = app_name
        os.system('open -a %s' % app_full_name)
        print 'Started %s' % app_name


def send_email(error_message):
    """Send me an email."""
    import smtplib

    fromaddr = 'myusername@gmail.com'
    toaddrs = fromaddr

    msg = ("From: %s\r\nTo: %s\r\n\r\n" % (fromaddr, toaddrs))
    line = 'Mac Mini mount problem! \n\n%s' % error_message
    msg = msg + line

    server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587')
    server.starttls()
    server.login('myusername@gmail.com', 'password')
    server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, msg)
    server.quit()

    print 'Something went wrong. Email sent.'


if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        for drive in DRIVES:
            map_drive(drive)
        for app in APPS:
            start_app(app)
    except Exception, e:
        send_email(str(e))