Added some comments for readability

ip-api.py

@@ -7,14 +7,17 @@ import traceback
 
 
 def query_api(host):
+    """Queries the ip-api site in order to check geolocation and mx record of
+    the host"""
     main_api = 'http://ip-api.com/json/'
     # For every host do an API request
     try:
         for x in host:
             json_data = requests.get(main_api + x).json()
+            # Checks to see if there is a 'message' field in the json data and
+            # prints the message instead of doing a query
             if 'message' in json_data:
-                print('\nThe IP "{}" is {}'.format(x,
-                                          json_data['message']))
+                print('\nThe IP "{}" is {}'.format(x, json_data['message']))
             # Print out wanted JSON data formatted nicely
             else:
                 print('\nCity\State: {}, {}\n'
@@ -28,6 +31,8 @@ def query_api(host):
                        json_data['isp'],
                        json_data['query'],
                        x))
+    # Added exception handling of key errors to help identify problems when
+    # reading the json data
     except KeyError:
         traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stdout)
         print('Key Error')
@@ -36,6 +41,7 @@ def query_api(host):
 
 
 def findMX(host):
+    """Looks up the MX record of a host"""
     p = os.popen('host -t MX ' + host)
 
     # initialize dicts
@@ -48,9 +54,12 @@ def findMX(host):
         if re.search('not found', line):
             query_api([host])
             break
+        # Checs to see if 'domain name pointer' is in the line and finds the ip
+        # associated with the pointer to do a query on. Created for IPs that do
+        # not have a easily parsed MX record return.
         elif re.search('domain name pointer', line):
             query_api([host])
-            extra = re.search('.in-addr.arpa .*',str(line))
+            extra = re.search('.in-addr.arpa .*', str(line))
             thing = line.replace(extra.group(0), '')
             query_api([thing.rstrip()])
             break