Might not be the problem but try without the leading spaces before your method calls.
for s in c.Win32_Service (): should be for s in c.Win32_Service(): -Larry Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote: > Hello, > > I'm pretty new to Python, though I have a fair bit of experience with > C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP and others. > > I installed Tim Golden's wmi module > (http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html), in the hopes it would > help me list and work with services on my Win32 machine. Now, everything > seems fine except for one thing : Listing services! > > I tried running a couple of the examples on Tim's more examples page in > the python shell (for example, List all running processes, Show the > percentage free space for each fixed disk, Show the IP and MAC addresses > for IP-enabled network interfaces, etc.) and they worked fine. But when > I try to run the first example which is on the first page above, I get > an error. The code is : > > import wmi > > for s in c.Win32_Service (): > if s.State == 'Stopped': > print s.Caption, s.State > > > and I get : > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > File "G:\Python-2.4\Lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 404, in __call__ > return self.wmi.query (wql) > File "G:\Python-2.4\Lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 583, in query > raise WMI_EXCEPTIONS.get (hresult, x_wmi (hresult)) > wmi.x_wmi: -2147217398 > > (the exception seems to be thrown on the "for s in..." line) > I have only found one discussion in this newsgroup's archives that seems > to talk about this problem > (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/19fa91ea1a1ff160/0364b7cd22d73483?q=WMI_EXCEPTIONS&rnum=1#0364b7cd22d73483) > and the fix they suggest there (calling pythoncom.CoInitialize () before > instantiating the WMI object) doesn't seem to work in this case. In > other words, this code : > > import wmi > import pythoncom > > pythoncom.CoInitialize () > c = wmi.WMI () > for s in c.Win32_Service (): > if s.State == 'Stopped': > print s.Caption, s.State > > gives me the same result as above. > > Could someone please point me in the right direction to find out what's > wrong? > > Thanks in advance, > > J-S > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
