Script to poll a jenkins job and run growlnotify with the status at its end

gistfile1.py

import time
import argparse
import urllib2
import lxml.etree
import subprocess

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--sleep", default=1, type=int)
parser.add_argument("server")
parser.add_argument("job")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    args = parser.parse_args()
    while True:
        xml = lxml.etree.fromstring(urllib2.urlopen("http://{args.server}/job/{args.job}/api/xml".format(args=args)).read())
        [status] = xml.xpath("color/text()")
        if status in ("blue", "red"):
            subprocess.Popen("growlnotify -s -t \"{}\" -m \"Build {}\"".format(
                args.job, "succeessful" if status == "blue" else "failed"
                ), shell=True)
            break
        time.sleep(args.sleep)