import commands import datetime POINTS = 100 start = datetime.datetime.now() for i in range(POINTS): value = commands.getoutput('python get_ping_rate.py') print "Step", i, "...", value cpu_mem = commands.getoutput('python get-client-cpu-mem.py') cpu, mem = cpu_mem.split() now = datetime.datetime.now() secs = (now - start).seconds commands.getoutput( 'echo %s\t%s\t%s\t%s >> series.log' % (secs, value, cpu, mem))