win32evtlog.OpenBackupEventLog() exists.  The official MSDN docs appear to
say this can only be used to perform a backup, but that makes no sense.
Other MS docs say the handle returned can be used by ReadEventLog etc.  I've
never tried it though.

Mark.

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: python-win32-bounces+mhammond=keypoint.com.au@[...].org
>  [mailto:python-win32-bounces+mhammond=keypoint.com.au@[...].org]On
>  Behalf Of Richard Eibrand
>  Sent: Wednesday, 29 September 2004 6:40 PM
>  To: python-win32@[...].org
>  Subject: [python-win32] EventLog Parsing
> 
> 
>  Hi All,
> 
>  My first foray into the world of python, and I'm liking it ;-)
> 
>  I have to write a prog to monitor the windows event log
>  files, and that in
>  itself is not a problem for the three standard EventLog files
>  (Application, Security and System). The thing is that I do
>  not have access
>  to the machine I am writting the app for, so I got a copy of
>  the event
>  files and loaded it into the mmc.
> 
>  What I'd like to do, is to read the new event file that was
>  loaded into
>  the mmc via using the python app that I'm writting, any
>  ideas/thoughts/suggestions whether this is possible or not?
> 
>  All the best,
> 
>  Richard
> 
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