Running WMI within a Windows service

[Roger Upole]

Build 204 of pywin32 has a change so that the working dir
for a service  is the folder where its executable is located
instead of \system32, hopefully avoiding trying
to import wmi.dll instead of wmi.pyd.

       Roger

"Tim Golden" <tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk> wrote in message news:mailman.740.1119430590.10512.python-list at python.org...
[cameron.mccloud at gmail.com]
|

[.. re problems running WMI in a service ...]

| Changing the path didn't do anything, but changing the name of the
| module to my_wmi did the trick.
|
| Thanks very much,
|
| Cam.
|

Thanks for the feedback; I'll try to find the time to
experiment a bit but I know I've used the change-the-name
trick in the past. It has been suggested that I permanently
change the module name, but I'm a bit loth to do that. Mark
(Hammond) was talking about a patch which would prevent
imports from picking up the false .dll, but I don't know
if it's gone anywhere.

TJG

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