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Available and used System Memory in Python?

Asked 2012-07-23T15:25:49.103
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How can I get the available and currently used memory from Python? It need to be cross-platform and at least work on at least Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

I'd like to report the user in my application that there isn't enough memory free to proceed.

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You should take a look to psutil : 

>>> import psutil
>>> psutil.virtual_memory()
svmem(total=16717422592, available=5376126976, percent=67.8, used=10359984128, free=1831890944, active=7191916544, inactive=2325667840, buffers=525037568, cached=4000509952, shared=626225152)
answered 2012-07-23T15:30:37.993

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