"Tim Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 3c273 wrote: > > Hello, > > When I run the following at an interactive interpreter on Windows XP, I get > > the expected results. But if I save it to a file and run it, it generates > > the following error. (And it generates the same error either way on Windows > > 2000) > > > > import wmi > > c=wmi.WMI() > > for item in c.win32_PhysicalMedia(): > > print item > > A couple of things: > > + As someone else has pointed out, Win32_PhysicalMedia > appears to be new to XP/2k3. (This happens quite a lot > with WMI classes; you need to check the small-print). > So that explains why it won't work on your Win2K box > nor on mine. > > + In addition, the bit after the "c." (here, Win32_PhysicalMedia) > is case-sensitive. So you have to put c.Win32_PhysicalMedia > (notice the capital "W"). I'm not actually sure why this should > be, and when I get a moment I'll take a look at the code to > see, but it's true nonetheless. > > Under the covers, the module is doing exactly what > Michel showed you in his second post (WMIS = GetObject etc.) > > > Strange that this does not return the serial number > > reported by other hardware utilities (SIW for one) and on both of my > > machines this number ends with 202020202020202020202020??? > > Strange indeed. Unfortunately, what you see is what you get > with WMI. I don't have access to an XP machine to test, but > let me know if this code doesn't work: > > <code> > import wmi > c = wmi.WMI () > for item in c.Win32_PhysicalMedia (): > print item > > </code> > > Good luck with WMI > > TJG
Thanks for your input. Strangely enough, it now works whether the Win32 is captalized or not??? I must have had a typo in there somewhere. Thanks again. Louis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
