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> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:18 AM, R. P. Janaka <> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there a way to get system memory consumption and CPU consumption in a
>> platform independent way, using python...?
>>
>> Basically my requirement is, get the memory status and CPU status of a
>> particular process. If there is a way to get memory info and CPU info by
>> just giving the process ID, that is exactly what I need to do
>> Is this possible with python..?

Given Turing-completeness, one should more precisely ask whether there
is already a library for doing something in Python rather than whether
something is possible with Python.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:12 PM, R. P. Janaka <> wrote:
> Please can anyone help me..??

It is generally customary to wait /at least/ one day before pinging on
one's question again.

If you were to have searched PyPI (http://pypi.python.org), you would
have found psutil, which seems to fit your bill:
http://code.google.com/p/psutil/

Cheers,
Chris
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Chris Rebert <> writes:

>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:18 AM, R. P. Janaka <> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to get system memory consumption and CPU consumption in a
>>> platform independent way, using python...?
>>>
>>> Basically my requirement is, get the memory status and CPU status of a
>>> particular process. If there is a way to get memory info and CPU info by
>>> just giving the process ID, that is exactly what I need to do
>>> Is this possible with python..?
>
> Given Turing-completeness, one should more precisely ask whether there
> is already a library for doing something in Python rather than whether
> something is possible with Python.

Turing-completeness is irrelevant to questions like getting memory and
CPU info for a process. These are not issues of computability...

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Paul Rudin <> wrote:
> Chris Rebert <> writes:
>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:18 AM, R. P. Janaka <> wrote:
>>>> Is there a way to get system memory consumption and CPU consumption in a
>>>> platform independent way, using python...?
>>>>
>>>> Basically my requirement is, get the memory status and CPU status of a
>>>> particular process. If there is a way to get memory info and CPU info by
>>>> just giving the process ID, that is exactly what I need to do
>>>> Is this possible with python..?
>>
>> Given Turing-completeness, one should more precisely ask whether there
>> is already a library for doing something in Python rather than whether
>> something is possible with Python.
>
> Turing-completeness is irrelevant to questions like getting memory and
> CPU info for a process. These are not issues of computability...

True, but given that it is possible to access most *nix APIs from
Python and win32all provides what I understand to be extensive access
to the Win32 API from Python, cross-platform coding is almost always
possible in Python. You might have to manually deal with each case
yourself though. (More technically, I suppose that's being
multi-platform with relatively easy DIY cross-platform).

Cheers,
Chris
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