linux - Get total physical memory in Python

Question

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.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65939913/how-to-detect-how-much-memory-a-computer-has-installed-in-it-using-python

Answer 1

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

from psutil import virtual_memory

mem = virtual_memory()
mem.total  # total physical memory available

Documentation for virtual_memory is here.