#!/usr/bin/python import xmlrpclib from datetime import datetime proxy = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy ("http://localhost:8000/") today = proxy.today () # today = 20140218T14:23:45 converted = datetime.strptime (today.value, "%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S") print "Today: %s" % converted.strftime ("%d.%m.%Y, %H:%M") load = proxy.load () print "system load:", load