Getting total/free RAM from within Python

Question

From within a Python application, how can I get the total amount of RAM of the system and how much of it is currently free, in a cross-platform way?

Ideally, the amount

Answer 1

You can't do this with just the standard Python library, although there might be some third party package that does it. Barring that, you can use the os package to determine which operating system you're on and use that information to acquire the info you want for that system (and encapsulate that into a single cross-platform function).