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Recipe 577499 revision 1 

# Windows Event Log Viewer
# FB - 201012116
import win32evtlog # requires pywin32 pre-installed

server = 'localhost' # name of the target computer to get event logs
logtype = 'System' # 'Application' # 'Security'
hand = win32evtlog.OpenEventLog(server,logtype)
flags = win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ
total = win32evtlog.GetNumberOfEventLogRecords(hand)

while True:
    events = win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand, flags,0)
    if events:
        for event in events:
            print 'Event Category:', event.EventCategory
            print 'Time Generated:', event.TimeGenerated
            print 'Source Name:', event.SourceName
            print 'Event ID:', event.EventID
            print 'Event Type:', event.EventType
            data = event.StringInserts
            if data:
                print 'Event Data:'
                for msg in data:
                    print msg
            print

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