How to get hardware information with Python

Question

I'm trying to retrieve hardware information with Python. Indeed, I want to get the total memory RAM of a computer. I've already tried to use "platform" and "sys" modules, but it was unsuccessful.

Answer 1

Using psutil :

>>> import psutil
>>> psutil.virtual_memory()
vmem(total=8374149120L, available=2081050624L, percent=75.1, used=8074080256L, free=300068864L, active=3294920704, inactive=1361616896, buffers=529895424L, cached=1251086336)
>>> psutil.swap_memory()
swap(total=2097147904L, used=296128512L, free=1801019392L, percent=14.1, sin=304193536, sout=677842944)
>>>