psychopy.info - functions for getting information about the system

This module has tools for fetching data about the system or the current Python process. Such info can be useful for understanding the context in which an experiment was run.

class psychopy.info.RunTimeInfo(author=None, version=None, win=None, refreshTest='grating', userProcsDetailed=False, verbose=False)

Returns a snapshot of your configuration at run-time, for immediate or archival use.

Returns a dict-like object with info about PsychoPy, your experiment script, the system & OS, your window and monitor settings (if any), python & packages, and openGL.

If you want to skip testing the refresh rate, use ‘refreshTest=None’

Example usage: see runtimeInfo.py in coder demos.

Author:

• 2010 written by Jeremy Gray, input from Jon Peirce and Alex Holcombe

Parameters:

win

: None, False, Window instance

what window to use for refresh rate testing (if any) and settings. None -> temporary window using defaults; False -> no window created, used, nor profiled; a Window() instance you have already created

author

: None, string

None = try to autodetect first __author__ in sys.argv[0]; string = user-supplied author info (of an experiment)

version

: None, string

None = try to autodetect first __version__ in sys.argv[0]; string = user-supplied version info (of an experiment)

verbose : False, True; how much detail to assess

refreshTest

: None, False, True, ‘grating’

True or ‘grating’ = assess refresh average, median, and SD of 60 win.flip()s, using visual.getMsPerFrame() ‘grating’ = show a visual during the assessment; True = assess without a visual

userProcsDetailed: False, True

get details about concurrent user’s processses (command, process-ID)

Returns:

a flat dict (but with several groups based on key names):

psychopy

: version, rush() availability

psychopyVersion, psychopyHaveExtRush, git branch and current commit hash if available

experiment

: author, version, directory, name, current time-stamp,

SHA1 digest, VCS info (if any, svn or hg only), experimentAuthor, experimentVersion, ...

system

: hostname, platform, user login, count of users,

user process info (count, cmd + pid), flagged processes systemHostname, systemPlatform, ...

window

: (see output; many details about the refresh rate, window,

and monitor; units are noted) windowWinType, windowWaitBlanking, ...windowRefreshTimeSD_ms, ... windowMonitor.<details>, ...

python

: version of python, versions of key packages

(wx, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pyglet, pygame) pythonVersion, pythonScipyVersion, ...

openGL

: version, vendor, rendering engine, plus info on whether

several extensions are present openGLVersion, ..., openGLextGL_EXT_framebuffer_object, ...

psychopy.info.getMemoryUsage()

Get the memory (RAM) currently used by this Python process, in M.

psychopy.info.getRAM()

Return system’s physical RAM & available RAM, in M.