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On Saturday, January 12, 2013 8:34:01 PM UTC+11, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 12/01/2013 06:09, email.address@gmail.com wrote:
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> > I am looking to write a short program to query the windows event
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> > log.
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> > It needs to ask the user for input for The event type (Critical,
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> > Error, and Information), and the user needs to be able to specify a
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> > date since when they want to view results.
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> >
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> > I found this piece of code to start from,
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> [... snip ...]
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> 
> Well it looks like you have everything you need. Was there a specific 
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> question you wanted to ask?
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> TJG

yes, I would like to run it in Command prompt and ask the user at the time what type and date of Event they would like to view. so i was wondering where in the code I could put something like "var=raw_input"

Thanks TJG