Python3 - Linux uptime command output parser

parse_uptime_output.py

# Parse Uptime
# ------------------------------
def parse_uptime(output = False):
    
    try:
        
        import re
        
        parsed = []
        
        # Find Uptime Data
        r = re.compile(" up (.*?), +[0-9]+ user")
        if not r: return False
        m = r.search(output)
        
        uptime = m.group(1)
        
        del output
        del r
        del m
        
        # Find Day
        # --------------------------
        x  = re.compile("([0-9]+) +day")
        md = x.search(uptime)
        
        if md:
            
            allX = md.group(0)
            md   = md.group(1)
            
            if int(md) <= 1:
                parsed.append("{} day".format(str(md)))
            else:
                parsed.append("{} days".format(str(md)))
                
            uptime = uptime.replace(allX, "").strip()
        
        
        # Find Hour
        # ------------------------
        x  = re.compile("([0-9]+) +hour")
        md = x.search(uptime)
        
        if md:
            
            allX = md.group(0)
            md   = md.group(1)
            
            if int(md) <= 1:
                parsed.append("{} hour".format(str(md)))
            else:
                parsed.append("{} hours".format(str(md)))
                
            uptime = uptime.replace(allX, "").strip()
        
        
        # Find Minute
        # ------------------------
        x  = re.compile("([0-9]+) +min")
        md = x.search(uptime)
        
        if md:
            
            allX = md.group(0)
            md   = md.group(1)
            
            if int(md) <= 1:
                parsed.append("{} minute".format(str(md)))
            else:
                parsed.append("{} minutes".format(str(md)))
                
            uptime = uptime.replace(allX, "").strip()
            
            
        # Find Hour & Minute 
        # Parse : 20:11
        # ------------------------
        if ":" in uptime:
            
            x  = re.compile("([0-9]+:[0-9]+)")
            md = x.search(uptime)
            
            if md:
                
                md     = md.group(1).split(":")
                hour   = int(md[0])
                minute = int(md[1])
                
                if hour <= 1:
                    parsed.append("{} hour".format(str(hour)))
                else:
                    parsed.append("{} hours".format(str(hour)))
                    
                
                if minute <= 1:
                    parsed.append("{} minute".format(str(minute)))
                else:
                    parsed.append("{} minutes".format(str(minute)))
                    
        
        try:
            del uptime
            del allX
            del md
            del x
        except:
            pass
        
        parsed = ", ".join(parsed).strip("'\" ")
        return parsed
        
    except:
        return False