uptime in unix

[Oli Schwarz]

Cameron Laird <claird at lairds.us> schrieb:
> In article <ciknln$16q$1 at online.de>, Oli Schwarz  <homix at gmx.net> wrote:
>>Hello,
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>>how can I read out the uptime of a unix system in python (Linux and *BSD).
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>>I have not found a uptime-function in the Library.
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> Is it enough to parse the output of uptime(1)?

I hope. :) But I was wondering that there is no such function in the
library.

Are these things handled like in Java? Doesn't Python know anything
about such platform specific things?

Regards
Oli