[... snip results ...] | 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.
Well I honestly don't know if this will go any further, but the following code uses the win32service module from pywin32 to collect the service information, on the off-chance that it *won't* fail where WMI does. I can't easily test it since the script doesn't raise an error on my machine. At the end, it tries to print out the differences between the win32-collected info and the wmi-collected info. <code> # # Not sure if you're running 2.3/2.4 # try: set except NameError: from sets import Set as set ## ## Taken from a post to c.l.py by William J. Rice ## import win32service import win32con accessSCM = win32con.GENERIC_READ hscm = win32service.OpenSCManager (None, None, accessSCM) win32_names = set () for service_info in win32service.EnumServicesStatus(hscm): win32_names.add (service_info[1]) import win32com.client c = win32com.client.GetObject ( "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=Impersonate,authenticationLevel=Default}/root/cimv2" ) wmi_names = set () for service in c.ExecQuery ("SELECT * FROM Win32_Service"): try: short_name = service.Properties_ ("Caption").Value except: pass else: wmi_names.add (short_name) print "only in win32:", ", ".join (win32_names - wmi_names) print print "only in wmi:", ", ".join (wmi_names - win32_names) print </code> Let me know if anything shows up. TJG ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list