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s.mihai
Asked: 2009-06-08 04:03:38 +0800 CST

Get python cpu usage

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Anyone using a Python script to monitor CPU usage on a Windows machine ? i've google for some time but have not been able to find any usable script. could you guys show me some example of what you're using ?

Here is the errors i got.

    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 1, in 
    import wmi
  File "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 141, in 
    from win32com.client import GetObject, Dispatch
ImportError: No module named win32com.client
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4 Answers

  1. Us psutil module, it provides for memory, cpu, netowrk, etc usages. Visit their project webpage http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ .

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  2. Lucky ol' you gets to dig around in WMI. Check out the Python module 'wmi' which is about as good as I've seen.

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  3. You are missing the python win32 extensions which you can find here.

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  4. This blog entry shows some code:

    def get_cpu_load():
    """ Returns a list CPU Loads"""
    result = []
    cmd = "WMIC CPU GET LoadPercentage "
    response = os.popen(cmd + ' 2>&1','r').read().strip().split("\r\n")
    for load in response[1:]:
       result.append(int(load))
    return result

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print get_cpu_load()
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