Problem listing services with wmi

[Larry Bates]

Might not be the problem but try without the leading
spaces before your method calls.

for s in c.Win32_Service ():

should be

for s in c.Win32_Service():

-Larry


Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm pretty new to Python, though I have a fair bit of experience with
> C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP and others.
> 
> I installed Tim Golden's wmi module
> (http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html), in the hopes it would
> help me list and work with services on my Win32 machine. Now, everything
> seems fine except for one thing : Listing services!
> 
> I tried running a couple of the examples on Tim's more examples page in
> the python shell (for example, List all running processes, Show the
> percentage free space for each fixed disk, Show the IP and MAC addresses
> for IP-enabled network interfaces, etc.) and they worked fine. But when
> I try to run the first example which is on the first page above, I get
> an error. The code is :
> 
> import wmi
> 
> for s in c.Win32_Service ():
>  if s.State == 'Stopped':
>    print s.Caption, s.State
> 
> 
> and I get :
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>  File "G:\Python-2.4\Lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 404, in __call__
>    return self.wmi.query (wql)
>  File "G:\Python-2.4\Lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 583, in query
>    raise WMI_EXCEPTIONS.get (hresult, x_wmi (hresult))
> wmi.x_wmi: -2147217398
> 
> (the exception seems to be thrown on the "for s in..." line)
> I have only found one discussion in this newsgroup's archives that seems
> to talk about this problem
> (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/19fa91ea1a1ff160/0364b7cd22d73483?q=WMI_EXCEPTIONS&rnum=1#0364b7cd22d73483)
> and the fix they suggest there (calling pythoncom.CoInitialize () before
> instantiating the WMI object) doesn't seem to work in this case. In
> other words, this code :
> 
> import wmi
> import pythoncom
> 
> pythoncom.CoInitialize ()
> c = wmi.WMI ()
> for s in c.Win32_Service ():
>  if s.State == 'Stopped':
>    print s.Caption, s.State
> 
> gives me the same result as above.
> 
> Could someone please point me in the right direction to find out what's
> wrong?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> J-S
>