acpi.py 0.3.1 review

acpi.py provides an platform-independent and uniform interface to ACPI. Installation: Linux 2.4 / 2.6 The Linux implementati

License: BSD License File size: 0K Developer: Tilo Riemer

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acpi.py provides an platform-independent and uniform interface to ACPI.

Installation:

Linux 2.4 / 2.6

The Linux implementation reads informations from /proc/acpi/. Therefore a low level modul is not needed. Copy the file acpi.py from the acpi.py directory into your Python directory/site-packages (in most cases you must be root for that).

Be sure that the needed ACPI drivers are loaded (on laptops usually battery). You will have subdirectories in /proc/acpi/. That's all.

Note: We have not tested acpi.py elaborately on Linux 2.6.

Requirements:
Python >= 2.0
Linux Kernel 2.4.x (not elaborately tested with kernel 2.6)

Usage:

Usage is simple. Do something like the following:

import acpi
battery = acpi.Acpi()
...
battery.update()
print battery.percent()
print battery.capacity()
print battery.nb_of_batteries()
print battery.charging_state()

Note that you have to call update() if you want get the current state of battery. Note furthermore that acpi raises exceptions in some cases. Please take a look into the short and well readable source file acpi.py.

What's New in This Release:
A bug in the AcpiLinux.estimated_lifetime() function has been fixed.