>> I believe that "uptime" works from the console, but don't have a machine >> to check it with...
> Doesn't work for me, but if you have win32all installed, you can get it > from Python: > >>> import win32api > >>> print "Uptime:", win32api.GetTickCount(), "Milliseconds" > Uptime: 148699875 Milliseconds MSDN recommends another approach. They say, that you should retrieve the value of "System Up Time" counter from HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA. In theory, you can do it without win32all, by using _winreg module. All you need is to know a counter index, which can be fetched from registry. On my system "System Up Time" counter has index "674", so Python code should look like this: >>> import _winreg >>> value, type_code = _winreg.QueryValueEx(_winreg.HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA, >>> "674") >>> print "Uptime: %s miliseconds" % (value,) But in current implementation of _winreg it doesn't work. I've checked the sources and found that current implementation doesn't handle ERROR_MORE_DATA, which prevents it from retrieving any performance counters. I'm thinking of bug/patch submission. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
