windows script host and python

Don Dwiggins dwig at advancedmp.net
Tue Mar 20 16:42:46 EST 2001


Alex Martelli writes:
>> Actually, it fails on my NT workstation also:
>     [snip]
>> File "e:\python20\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 87, in Moniker
>> moniker, i, bindCtx = pythoncom.MkParseDisplayName(Pathname)
>> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221020, 'Invalid syntax', None, None)

> ...but do you have WMI installed?  AFAIK, it doesn't come as default
> with either 98 or NT (perhaps 2000 and/or ME -- not sure) -- it has
> to be downloaded from the MS site and installed.

You're right, I don't (and don't really know much about it) -- just out of
curiosity, I snipped the code from the message and tried it out.  Oh well,
post in haste, repent at leisure...

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