[python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs

[Tony Cappellini]

Message: 3
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:08:51 -0700
From: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs
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Tony Cappellini wrote:
> I've added the While loop Mark suggested but still see the same issue.
> GetNumberOfEventLogRecords() still returns 6 events,
> However the object returned from ReadEvenLog() still only contains 3 objects
> The next call to ReadeventLog() returns None
>

>OK, in my test, repeated calls to ReadEventLog eventually fetch all of
>the events.  Each call to ReadEventLog will return however many events
>will fit in 1024 bytes, which is the buffer in the pywin32 code.  If I
>change your code to this:

>while 1:
>   events=win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand,flags,0)
>   if not events:
>       break
>   for event in events:
>       print event.EventID, event.StringInserts

>then it all works as expected.

This is what I'm doing. I have added the while 1 last week, after Mark
had suggested it.
It did not change anything. ReadEventLog() returns None on successive calls.

Which versions of Python and Pywin32 are you using?