Grabbing data from my motherboard thermistor?

[Gustavo Cordova]

> 
> Is it possible using Python to grab the temperature from the 
> cpu thermistor
> on my motherboard? What module would i use/hunt for? If poss 
> i wanna code a
> heat monitor.
> 
> --g
> 

You need a device driver to read the data from the thermistor;
that driver must make that information available to userland
programs; which in turn should be able to read the info from
some kind of device file or pseudo-file (like unix's "/dev/*" files)


Also, with more information, better help would be available:
What OS? What Motherboard brand and model? etc tc...

-gus