How to get Windows system information?

[Martin P. Hellwig]

dpickles at pacbell.net wrote:
> Does anybody know how to get the:
> 
>      Free hard disk space
>      Amount of CPU load
>      and Amount of RAM used
> 
> on windows? I am making an artificial intelligence program that has
> "moods" based on how much stress the system is under, based on these
> parameters. I think it could possibly be done via COM. I am not looking
> for a cross-platform solution- just something that will work on
> Windows. Thank you for your help!
> 

Have a look at WMI* , it's specifically designed to getthat kind of 
stuff, there is also a python layer for WMI**.

* http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/wmi_reference.asp
** http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html

hth

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