Tim Roberts wrote:
Alec Bennett wrote:
I'm wondering if there's some way to reboot or shutdown Windows from within Python?
I can log out like this:
win32api.ExitWindowsEx(4)
And according to the documentation, I should be able to shutdown like this:
win32api.ExitWindowsEx(2)
But that returns the following error:
'A required privilege is not held by the client.'
Is there some way to do this? Currently I'm running shutdown.exe, which works,
but I'd rather do it directly if possible.
Yes -- you have to acquire the required privilege. ;) The mechanism to
do so is tedious, and involves fetching your current privilege token,
then adjusting it in place. You can read about it in the MSDN page on
ExitWindowsEx:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376868.aspx
Personally, and it really is a personal preference, I think it's a lot
less trouble, and a lot easier to understand, just to use the tools at
my disposal:
subprocess.call( "shutdown", "-r" )
Or... WMI makes this one slightly easier. This example:
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi_cookbook.html#reboot_remote_machine
comes close. You don't -- probably -- need the remote machine bit,
and the privilege you need is Shutdown, not RemoteShutdown. Oh, sod
it; here's the code:
<code>
import wmi
wmi.WMI (privileges=["Shutdown"]).Win32_OperatingSystem ()[0].Shutdown ()
</code>
TJG
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