import os, commands, time

wait=True

while wait:
    status, njobs = commands.getstatusoutput('squeue -u ne86qok | wc -l')
    njobs=int(njobs)-1
    print "there are still",njobs,"jobs"
    if njobs==0:
        print 'batchfarm is empty'
        wait=False
    else:
        time.sleep(20)