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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:34:01 +0000
From: Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>
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On 12/01/2013 06:09, robey.lawrence@gmail.com wrote:
> I am looking to write a short program to query the windows event
> log.
>
> It needs to ask the user for input for The event type (Critical,
> Error, and Information), and the user needs to be able to specify a
> date since when they want to view results.
>
> I found this piece of code to start from,

[... snip ...]

Well it looks like you have everything you need. Was there a specific 
question you wanted to ask?

TJG