detecting idle time using python

Question

How do I detect if the system is idle on Windows using Python (i.e. no keyboard or mouse activity). This has already been asked before, but there doesn't seem to be a GetLastInputInfo in the pywin32 module.

Answer 1

from ctypes import Structure, windll, c_uint, sizeof, byref  class LASTINPUTINFO(Structure):     _fields_ = [         ('cbSize', c_uint),         ('dwTime', c_uint),     ]  def get_idle_duration():     lastInputInfo = LASTINPUTINFO()     lastInputInfo.cbSize = sizeof(lastInputInfo)     windll.user32.GetLastInputInfo(byref(lastInputInfo))     millis = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount() - lastInputInfo.dwTime     return millis / 1000.0 

Call get_idle_duration() to get idle time in seconds.

Answer 2

import win32api def getIdleTime():     return (win32api.GetTickCount() - win32api.GetLastInputInfo()) / 1000.0