The sungrid job submission framework known as `qsub` is a powerful tool to distribute your workload over many machines in parallel. To check the status of the jobs in the queue there is `qstat` which can print a human readable status table on the command line. Such status can be useful to keep track of your submitted compute jobs to e.g. prevent duplicate submission.

This python qstat wrapper parses the jobs listed in `qstat -xml` into a list of dictionaries.

Install with

$ pip install qstat

Get python dictionaries descibing your `qsub` jobs.

from qstat import qstat
queue_info, job_info = qstat()
queue_info[13]

{'@state': 'running',
 'JAT_prio': '0.55008',
 'JAT_start_time': '2017-09-04T16:22:50',
 'JB_job_number': '6384796',
 'JB_name': 'phs_obs_20120102_001',
 'JB_owner': 'relleums',
 'queue_name': 'test@isdc-cn11.astro.unige.ch',
 'slots': '1',
 'state': 'r'}

Add both `queue_info` and `job_info` to have one list of both running and waiting jobs:

from qstat import qstat
queue_info, job_info = qstat()
all_jobs = queue_info + job_info
for job in all_jobs:
 print(job['JB_name'], 'is', job['@state'])

my_job_001 is running
my_job_002 is running
my_job_003 is running

or combine with e.g. with pandas DataFrame

from qstat import qstat
q, j = qstat()
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame(q + j)
df.tail()

 @state JAT_prio JAT_start_time JB_job_number JB_name \
190 pending 0.00000 NaN 6384973 phs_obs_20160102_002
191 pending 0.00000 NaN 6384974 phs_obs_20160201_001
192 pending 0.00000 NaN 6384975 phs_obs_20160201_002
193 pending 0.00000 NaN 6384976 phs_obs_20160202_001
194 pending 0.00000 NaN 6384977 phs_obs_20160202_002
 JB_owner JB_submission_time queue_name slots state
190 relleums 2017年09月04日T16:22:51 None 1 qw
191 relleums 2017年09月04日T16:22:51 None 1 qw
192 relleums 2017年09月04日T16:22:51 None 1 qw
193 relleums 2017年09月04日T16:22:51 None 1 qw
194 relleums 2017年09月04日T16:22:51 None 1 qw