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Get total physical memory in Python

How can I get the total physical memory within Python in a distribution agnostic fashion? I don't need used memory, just the total physical memory.

Solution

  • your best bet for a cross-platform solution is to use the psutil package (available on PyPI).

    import psutil

psutil.virtual_memory().total  # total physical memory in Bytes

    Documentation for virtual_memory is here.