Query windows event log with python

[Tim Golden]

On 13/01/2013 05:55, robey.lawrence at gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, January 12, 2013 8:34:01 PM UTC+11, Tim Golden wrote:
>> On 12/01/2013 06:09, email.address at gmail.com wrote:
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>>> I am looking to write a short program to query the windows event
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>>> log.
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>>> 
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>>> It needs to ask the user for input for The event type (Critical,
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>>> Error, and Information), and the user needs to be able to specify
>>> a
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>>> date since when they want to view results.
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>>> 
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>>> I found this piece of code to start from,
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>> [... snip ...]
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>> 
>> 
>> Well it looks like you have everything you need. Was there a
>> specific
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>> question you wanted to ask?
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>> 
>> 
>> TJG
> 
> yes, I would like to run it in Command prompt and ask the user at the
> time what type and date of Event they would like to view. so i was
> wondering where in the code I could put something like
> "var=raw_input"

Ok, so your query isn't so much with accessing the event log as
with writing Python code at all. If you haven't already, could I suggest
the Python tutorial here:

  http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/

or, if that one doesn't suit, just search for "Python tutorial" to find
something which fits your brain.

Feel free to post back here with questions once you've got started.

TJG