Getting Windows computer system info

[Bolin]

I was wondering how to get some system info from a PC running Windows
in python. I am especially interested in knowing how much RAM the
computer has, how much diskspace is still left, and what jobs are
already running and how much memory they take. If this is off-topic, I
would appreciate if you redirect me.

Thank!

B.

 

[Brad Tilley]

I was wondering how to get some system info from a PC running Windows
in python. I am especially interested in knowing how much RAM the
computer has, how much diskspace is still left, and what jobs are
already running and how much memory they take. If this is off-topic, I
would appreciate if you redirect me.

Thank!

B.

You may find this of interest. It's a Python implementation of winver
that I wrote:

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/downloads/winver/winver.html

 

[Waldemar Osuch]

I was wondering how to get some system info from a PC running Windows
in python.

For ease of use nothing beats Tim Golden's wmi package:
http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html

But one can do the same stuff using Mark Hammond's pywin32
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/

Check out <python install>Lib\site-packages\win32\demos folder for examples

 

[Bengt Richter]

I was wondering how to get some system info from a PC running Windows
in python. I am especially interested in knowing how much RAM the
computer has, how much diskspace is still left, and what jobs are
already running and how much memory they take. If this is off-topic, I
would appreciate if you redirect me.

Thank!

I use this to get a quick summary of disk free space from the console
command line:

----< df.py >----------------------
import os
def df(drives='C', showna=1):
for drive in drives:
drive = drive.upper()
d = os.popen('dir/w '+drive+':\\').readlines()
if not d:
if showna: print '%s: (n/a)' % drive
continue
print '%s: (%-12s %12s bytes free ' %(
drive,
d[0].strip().split(' is ', 1)[-1]+')',
d[-1].strip().split(' bytes ')[0]
)

if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys
if len(sys.argv)<2: df()
else: df(sys.argv[1])
----------------------------------

actually, i start it with df.cmd, which has:

@python c:\util\df.py CDEVW

since those are my useful drive letters.

As for dynamic stuff, if it's just for you, see if you have pstat.exe on your path
(likely if you have MS dev tools). If so, try it from the command line
to see what it gives you. Then you can write a quick python function
to run it via popen and extract what you want from the read result, e.g.,
... if 'mem' in line.lower(): print line.rstrip()
...
Pstat version 0.3: memory: 327080 kb uptime: 0 21:40:12.957
Memory: 327080K Avail: 274140K TotalWs: 40132K InRam Kernel: 3264K P:12572K
c 18 22 8011f9ba 0:00:00.000 0:00:00.160 Wait:VirtualMemory
2a 17 1 801223a4 0:00:00.000 0:00:00.000 Wait:VirtualMemory

Or eliminate the first-guess garbage
... if 'emory:' in line: print line.strip()
...
Pstat version 0.3: memory: 327080 kb uptime: 0 21:43:48.997
Memory: 327080K Avail: 274668K TotalWs: 39520K InRam Kernel: 3260K P:12484K

HTH

Regards,
Bengt Richter