Pythonwin can't resolve WMI instances

[Roger Upole]

If you've run makepy on WMI, only the properties defined in the object
library can be accessed
with the 'object.property' notation.  You can use the more verbose notation
print cpu.Properties_('Name'), cpu.Properties_('CurrentClockSpeed'),
cpu.Properties_('Description'), cpu.Properties_('L2CacheSize')
to access properties from the WMI provider itself with makepy support.

    Roger Upole

"Benjamin Derstine" <bend at ecollege.com> wrote in message
news:X5_H5.7008$rD3.235678 at newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> When I try to run the exact code below (except for changing the computer
> name) I get an "AttributeError: Name" error for the last line.  I inspect
> the object type and the object type is correct- ISWbemObject.  It seems
that
> Pythonwin can only see the generic classes for WMI and can't seem to
access
> instances and their dynamic properities. I also tried enumerating the
> software products on my machine and got the same result- the returned
> objects have class types that are correct but no instance information is
> accessible.  I'm running a Win2000 system and when I run the equivalent
code
> using VBS (with WSH) everything works fine. Is there something else I need
> to do to make Pythonwin aware of WMI?
>
> Ben
>
> Subject: Re: System information on Windows?
> Date: 09/19/2000
> Author: Roger Upole <rupole at compaq.net>
>
>
>       If you don't mind installing WMI (a free download from Microsoft) on
> all the machines in question, you can do things like this:
>
>       import win32com.client
>       wmi = win32com.client.Dispatch('wbemscripting.swbemlocator')
>       rmt_mach = wmi.ConnectServer('machine name')
>       cpus = rmt_mach.InstancesOf('Win32_Processor')
>       for cpu in cpus:
>           print cpu.Name, cpu.CurrentClockSpeed, cpu.Description,
> cpu.L2CacheSize
>
>       For my machine, this returns
>           Intel Pentium III processor 450 x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3
> 512
>
>       HTH
>       Roger Upole
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