I did not mean to use WMI on linux, but query win machines *from* linux. Thank you for your clarifications
- Leonardo On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:04 AM, A.T.Hofkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Welcome to the world outside MS. > > Many python modules don't actually do anything than passing on calls to an > existing underlying library. They are cheap to make, and make it possible to > use the functionality of the library from a Python program. The down-side is, > as you have discovered, that you need the underlying library to make it work. > > So, the answer is no, you cannot use wmi under a non-MS OS. (But what did you > expect, given that wmi means WINDOWS Management Instrumentation?) No doubt > there are also open source variants of this package, however, I am not > familiar > with them, so I cannot help you. > > > Albert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
