from subprocess import getoutput import pprint class NoContainersError(Exception): pass class DockerParser: def containers_info(raw_info=getoutput('docker container list')): """ Gets info about all the Docker containers :return: Nested dict of containers info """ if '\n' not in raw_info: raise(NoContainersError('A Docker container is required to run this program. Please create a docker container and try again.')) raw_info = getoutput('docker ps') # Header: "CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES" (with way more spaces) header = raw_info[:raw_info.find('\n')+1] header_temp = header header_indices = {} while ' ' in header_temp: # Split header temp = header_temp[header_temp.rfind(' ')+2:].strip() header_indices[temp] = header.find(temp) header_temp = header_temp[:header_temp.rfind(' ')].strip() header_indices[header[:header.find(' ')]] = 0 raw_info = raw_info[raw_info.find('\n')+1:] # Remove header (example above) info = {} # Find container names containers = [] for line in raw_info.split('\n'): containers.append(line.strip()[line.strip().rfind(' ')+1:]) # Fill in info for i in range(len(containers)): info[containers[i]] = {} for column in header_indices: end_i = header_indices[column] + len(column) info[containers[i]][column] = raw_info[i][header_indices[column]:end_i] return info if __name__ == '__main__': try: pprint.pprint(DockerParser.containers_info()) except NoContainersError as e: print(e)