[python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Fri Jul 17 18:22:47 CEST 2009


Tony Cappellini wrote:
>
>> 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?
>   

XP SP3, Python 2.4.1, pywin32 214.  Perhaps I should send you the C
version of the same program that I wrote for testing, to see if it
behaves differently.  The code in pywin32 doesn't do that much
processing -- it's mostly passthrough.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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