detecting idle processor

[piet at cs.uu.nl]

>>>>> s_gherman at yahoo.com (Sorin Gherman) (SG) writes:

SG> How can I use Python to detect when the processor is idle? 

You can't because the processor wouldn't be idle if your Python program is
running. So you first have to define what you mean with "idle".

SG> Or when the network traffic is idle, for a given computer?

That is very much system dependent.

SG> I need this to implement a background program.

The easiest is probably to run your program at a low priority.
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