How to gather information about the system hardware?

[Tim Golden]

Florencio Cano wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for a method of gathering information about the system
> hardware and software installed using Python. I would like to do it in
> UNIX and in Windows. I think that it would be good in Windows to look
> in the registry and be able to parse and search it. Any pointer to
> information would be appreciated.

For Windows WMI is probably a good bet.

TJG