manipulating the Windows Device Manager

[Erick Bodine]

I want to be able to disable/enable a hardware device on a Windoze box
for testing purposes through Python.  Cursory searches of the the
win32all extensions, this group and google have not been too
fruitfull.  There appears to be a route through WMI but I was
wondering if anyone had done this already before I plumb the depths of
MSDN.

Thanks,

ERick