Re: Python on a public library computer

2005-05-18 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
exe? (yes, I have seen so-called "locked down" machines with a "program black list" that were that stupid) Worth a try! :-) And then you could rename ssh.exe to explorer.exe, perl.exe to java.exe or something funny like that... J-S -- _____

Re: Problem listing services with wmi

2005-05-18 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
sterday, with the same results. It would seem (from what I can understand) that c.ExecQuery() just makes a list of proxy objects, and that when you call Count on the set, it has to create them all for real and that's where it fails when reaching the "bad" service. Thanks again, loo

Re: Problem listing services with wmi

2005-05-17 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
have no problem with trying out other suggestions. Thanks a lot, just by your small scripts I've already learned a lot more about Python! J-S -- ___ Jean-Sébastien Guay [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://whitestar02.webhop.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problem listing services with wmi

2005-05-17 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
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

Re: Problem listing services with wmi

2005-05-16 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
there any reason why whitespace between the method name and parameter list parentheses isn't good? Because the code I posted before was copy-pasted from Tim Golden's site (http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html) and the spaces were there. Thanks, J-S -- ______

Problem listing services with wmi

2005-05-16 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
= 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 -- ___