On 17/01/2011 03:01, FT wrote:
Is there a way to read the battery level using Python?
I am totally blind and want to write a script to capture the battery
level and send it through the voice activeX so I can speak it...
WMI should be able to query the battery information:
<code>
import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()
for battery in c.Win32_Battery ():
print battery.Caption, battery.EstimatedChargeRemaining
</code>
The pure-python wmi module is based here:
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/index.html
and can be installed via easy_install / pip.
Information on the attributes of the Win32_Battery class are
available here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394074%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
You might also be interested in the pyttsx project
(successor to the Windows-specific pytts):
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyttsx/1.0
although if you have existing code to work with an ActiveX
control then I doubt it brings you any advantages.
TJG
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