get CPU counts and memory in bytes for Python on Linux

cpu_mem.py

import re

def get_cpu_count():
	cpu_count = 0
	cpu_file = '/proc/cpuinfo'
	ch = open(cpu_file, 'r')
	for line in ch:
		if re.match('processor', line):
			cpu_count = cpu_count + 1
	ch.close()
	return(cpu_count)

def get_mem_bytes():
	mem_bytes = 0
	mem_file = '/proc/meminfo'
	mh = open(mem_file, 'r')
	for line in mh:
		if re.match('MemTotal', line):
			mem_bytes = int(line.split()[1]) * 1024
	mh.close()
	return(mem_bytes)