Hello, I've run into some trouble with the pywin32 WMI interface that seems to be due to unicode translation. I'm trying to read system environment variables using Microsoft's own example here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/python/desktop/exp lorer/dmexpy03.mspx?mfr=true However, the example fails with a UnicodeDecodeError exception as soon as I try to access an attribute on the WMIService. The problem appears to be in the __getattr__() on <COMObject WbemScripting.SWbemLocator> and not inside the WMI service itself. For example, the following code crashes: >>> import win32com.client >>> objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") >>> objWMIService.ConnectServer Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#23>", line 1, in <module> dir(objWMIService.ConnectServer) File "U:\dev\l4dbranch\game\sdktools\python\2.5\lib\site-packages\win32com\cl ient\dynamic.py", line 467, in __getattr__ (...) File "U:\dev\l4dbranch\game\sdktools\python\2.5\lib\site-packages\win32com\cl ient\build.py", line 542, in <lambda> return filter( lambda char: char in valid_identifier_chars, className) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x83 in position 52: ordinal not in range(128)
Googling around for this problem revealed another thread ( http://tinyurl.com/597pfp ) on the same issue, but no resolution or workaround. Do I need to put my Python in some sort of Unicode Mode or something? I can't seem to find any other documentation of what's going on here. I'm running plain US English XP, no international features installed. I'm using the stable Python 2.5 from python.org. Alternatively, does anyone know another convenient way I can read and set persistent SYSTEM and USER environment variables through Python? Thanks, Elan _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
