win32evtlog

[Peter Hansen]

sigzero at gmail.com wrote:
> Is anyone versed in pulling out information from the Windows (2000)
> event log? I have looked at the docs and I am in the dark as to how to
> do it. Do what? I am looking to pull out all events with "error" as the
> type.

Generally there are a few things you can do to help yourself with such 
things.  There are some samples of win32 stuff in the win32all package, 
in the "Demos" directories.  It's possible there is some support for 
that already.

Google can also help you search the list archives to find whether others 
have asked this question in the past, as is almost always the case. 
Usually it helps to know the name of either the relevant module from the 
win32all package, or the relevant Win32 API which you can often get from 
the msdn.com site if you don't already know it.

Finally, Googling the web instead of the newsgroup will often work very 
nicely.  The best approach is to start with the subject line you are 
about to use for your posting plus the word Python (e.g. "python 
win32evtlog").  Let us know what you find out!

-Peter