All we really need is:

import datetime
with open(‘/proc/uptime’) as f:
uptime, idletime = map(float, f.read().split())

print(datetime.timedelta(seconds=uptime))

@Dave python does have a ternary operator
http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html#conditional-expressions

Your script is really very usefull, but I refactored it. I used datetime lib to simplify handle with time.

Here is the result: http://pastebin.com/Tks3Rnst

Anyway thanks for the inspiration ;-)

Greeting from Brazil!!

Your script is really very usefull, but I refactored it. I used datetime lib to simplify handle with time.

Here is the result: http://pastebin.com/Tks3Rnst

Anyway thanks for the inspiration ;-)

Despite your earlier comment, I think this is useful as a stand-alone script. The problem with the ‘uptime’ command is that is outputs other junk as well as the system uptime, and because this output is so variable depending on how long the system has been up, parsing it to extract only the uptime is non-trivial.

If you want just the system uptime, and nothing more, your script does the business!

Hi Dave! Great script! Thanks for the code!

I want contribute! To work on FreeBSD 6.x and FreeBSD 7.x, replace lines 9, 10, 11 and 13 with follow lines:

[line 9] varOutPut = commands.getoutput(“/sbin/sysctl kern.boottime | /usr/bin/awk ‘{ print $5 \”.\” $8 }’”)

[line 10] varOutPut = varOutPut.split(“,”)

[line 11] total_seconds = time.time() – float(varOutPut[0])

[line 13] “Cannot request kernel variable”

Also import “commands” to proper work the getoutput method.

I think the version with the ternary operator is actually more readable than two separate lines.

string += str(days) + ” ” + (days == 1 and “day” or “days” )

with the more readable (and equally short):

string += str(days) + ‘ day’
if days > 1: string += ‘s’