output of top on a linux box

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:56:03 -0300, Pradnyesh Sawant <spradml at gmail.com>  
escribió:

> Thanks for the pointer to use /proc/stat
> However, that does not answer my other question about string slicing
> Any pointers in that direction would be helpful...
>
>> > top = os.popen("top -n 1")
>> > rd = top.read().split("\n")
>> > splt = rd[2].split()
>> > # cpu = splt[2][:-4]  # why ain't this working ???
>> > cpu = splt[2]
>> > print "cpu usage: %s, %s" % (cpu, type(cpu))

Print rd[2] above and see how it is formatted.

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Gabriel Genellina