output results outside function instead of printing

[sdrulik]

Im leveraging pyxows to pull call history and call stats for each of our units but i'd like to ouput the data into a variable that I can manipulate for furthur implementation in my environment. I cant seem to get it to work and im a little stumped on what I am missing. As soon as I try to output in past the def start function using a global variable, I get errors with future references and it only gives me one video unit output instead of 2. What am I missing?

import xows
import asyncio

async def start(ip, name):
    async with xows.XoWSClient(ip, username='admin', password='XXX') as client:
        z = (name, await client.xCommand(['CallHistory', 'Get'],DetailLevel='Full', Limit=2))    
        print(z)
        await client.wait_until_closed()

async def task():
    codecs = [('X.X.X.X', 'Video1'),
              ('X.X.X.X', 'Video2')]
    connections = [start(*codec) for codec in codecs]

await asyncio.wait(connections)

asyncio.run(task())

[xim]

I tried not modifying your code too much, just simplified and fixed the obvious issues.

import xows
import asyncio

async def start(ip, name):
    async with xows.XoWSClient(ip, username='admin', password='XXX') as client:
        print(name, await client.xCommand(['CallHistory', 'Get'],DetailLevel='Full', Limit=2))

async def task():
    codecs = [start('X.X.X.X', 'Video1'),
              start('X.X.X.X', 'Video2')]
    for command in codecs:
        await command

asyncio.run(task())

[sdrulik]

How would i pull the results from the def(start) outside of the local scope of the function so I can manipulate it globally? I dont technically want to "print" the data, but store it in a Dict where Video1 will be element 1 in the json format (with all Call history) and video2 will be element 2?

[xim]

Sorry for the belated reply. At the point where you're printing the results now, you could e.g. add them to a dict, return them to the outer function, or use them directly if you wish. Same as in any Python program.