Login to multiple devices,run multiple commands using paramiko, store the results using xlswriter and send email using Python's smtplib library

devicelogin.py

#! /usr/bin/python

import os
import getpass
import paramiko
import xlsxwriter
import socket
import  re
import sys
import smtplib
from email import encoders
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText



username = raw_input('Enter username for device login:')

def enterPassword():
  while True: # repeat forever
    password = getpass.getpass('Enter corresponding password:')
    password_again = getpass.getpass('Confirm password:')
    if password != password_again:
      print 'Password and confirmation do not match.Please try again!!'
    else:
      return password
password = enterPassword()

recipient = raw_input('Enter your email-id where the results of the test will be mailed to you :')
sender = raw_input('Enter recipient email address':)
subject = raw_input('Enter subject for the mail':)
message = raw_input('Enter the message body:')
SMTP_SERVER = raw_input('Enter SMTP server FQDN':)
SMTP_PORT = 587
print "Running the tests..this might take some time.."

# Opens file in read mode
f1 = open('hostfile','r')
f2 = open('commandfile','r')
# Creates list based on f1
devices = f1.readlines()
commands = f2.readlines()

ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())

data = []
for device in devices:
        column = device.split()
        data.append([column[0]])
        print column[0]
        for command in commands:
            try:
                    conn=ssh.connect(column[1], username=username, password=password, timeout=4)
                    if conn is None:
                        stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command(command)
                        data[-1].append(stdout.read())
                        ssh.close()
            except  paramiko.AuthenticationException:
                    output = "Authentication Failed"
                    data[-1].append(output)
                    break
            except  paramiko.SSHException:
                    output = "Issues with SSH service"
                    data[-1].append(output)
                    break
            except  socket.error, e:
                    output = "Connection Error"
                    data[-1].append(output)
                    break
        data[-1] = tuple(data[-1])


f1.close()
f2.close()
#Create Workbook instance
book = xlsxwriter.Workbook('Workbook.xlsx')
sheet = book.add_worksheet('Sheet1')




#Define and format header
header_format = book.add_format({'bold':True , 'bg_color':'yellow'})

for col, text in enumerate(header):
    sheet.write(0, col, text, header_format)



# Now, let's write the contents

for row, data_in_row in enumerate(data):
    for col, text in enumerate(data_in_row):
        sheet.write(row + 1, col, text)


book.close()

# Send excelsheet results in a mail

def main():
    msg = MIMEMultipart()
    msg['Subject'] = subject
    msg['To'] = recipient
    msg['From'] = sender
    part = MIMEText('text', "plain")
    part.set_payload(message)
    msg.attach(part)
    session = smtplib.SMTP(SMTP_SERVER)
    fp = open('Workbook.xlsx', 'rb')
    msgq = MIMEBase('audio', 'audio')
    msgq.set_payload(fp.read())
    fp.close()
    # Encode the payload using Base64
    encoders.encode_base64(msgq)
    # Set the filename parameter
    filename='Workbook.xlsx'
    msgq.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename=filename)
    msg.attach(msgq)
    # Now send or store the message
    qwertyuiop = msg.as_string()
    session.sendmail(sender, recipient, qwertyuiop)

    session.quit()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

I made the same thing with netmiko, a little different formatting but it is nice seeing other ways to do the same thing. Yours is very efficient thanks for sharing.