Running WMI within a Windows service

[cameron.mccloud at gmail.com]

Tim,

Changing the path didn't do anything, but changing the name of the
module to my_wmi did the trick.

Thanks very much,

Cam.

Tim Golden wrote:
> [cameron.mccloud at gmail.com]
> | Hi,
> |
> | When trying to import the WMI module in a Python Windows
> | Service, I get
> | the following:
> |
> |     dynamic module does not define init function (initwmi)
> |
> | The WMI version is 0.6. Python 2.4 on Win32, Python Win32 extensions
> | version 203
>
> This is almost certainly caused by a problem which
> I consistently fail to mention on my site every time
> it comes up. In essence, the service you've defined
> will run in c:\winnt\system32, where there is an
> file called wmi.dll (which presumably implements
> the core WMI functionality). Python, looking for
> a "wmi" to import, finds this -- which could be
> a Python module -- and tries to import it. And fails.
>
> Possible solutions:
>
> 1) Within the service code, switch directories to
>    some other directory before importing wmi.
>
> 2) Rename wmi.py to something else (pywmi.py?)
>    and import that.
>
> 3) Run the service as a named user, which will run
>    within that user's home directory. (Not at all
>    sure about this one; haven't tried it).
>
> HTH
> TJG
>
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