Hello Tim, thanks for replying, >For your >information, what the code is doing behind the scenes is the following: > ><code> > >import win32com.client > >c = win32com.client.GetObject ( > > "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=Impersonate,authenticationLevel=Default}/root/cimv2" >) >for service in c.ExecQuery ("SELECT * FROM Win32_Service"): > if service.Properties_ ("State").Value == "Stopped": > print service.Properties_ ("Caption").Value > print service.Properties_ ("State").Value > ></code> > >
Running this code seems to go through the 87 first services in the list returned by ExecQuery, then stops with the following error : Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "G:\Python-2.4\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\util.py", line 83, in next return _get_good_object_(self._iter_.next()) pywintypes.com_error: (-2147217398, 'OLE error 0x8004100a', None, None) Could there be such a thing as a "null pointer" in the list at position 88? Or is that not possible in Python? Would the iterator just stop at a null value? As I said, I'm pretty new to Python so I'm just throwing around ideas here. ><code> > >set wmi = GetObject ("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}") >set ServiceSet = wmi.InstancesOf ("Win32_Service") >for each Service in ServiceSet > WScript.Echo Service.Description >Next > ></code> > > This gives me the first 87 services as well, and then stops with this message : C:\Documents and Settings\guayj\Desktop\bob.vbs(7, 1) (null): 0x8004100A So it would seem that the 3 methods give the same result. As to which service it has gotten to when it gets to position 88 in the list, obviously I can't find out with a script, and it seems that the list isn't in any order I can see, so I couldn't even venture a guess... I'll try looking if there's a service in my list that isn't valid (points to an uninstalled program for example) or something like that... But if you have other ideas please let me know. >PS I realise that by now you've probably moved on from >this approach, but if you did manage to pin down a problem >we could address, I'd be very glad to address it. > > Not at all, this is a small project I'm using to try and learn Python... I'm currently on summer break before I start my Masters, so I have the luxury of keeping this on the back burner until I find a fix... Thanks for your help! J-S -- ___________________________________________ Jean-Sébastien Guay [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://whitestar02.webhop.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list