Shutting down windows using win32api

[Carl Banks]

Josh wrote:
> While I have been programming in Python for quite some time, I am a newbie 
> at Win 32 API. I spent all of yesterday trying to figure out a way to 
> shutdown the local computer using InitiateSystemShutdown. I just couldn't 
> do it. Could someone walk me through the steps required(an example script 
> would be nice too). I went through the documentation for win32all as well 
> as the MSDN website. I understand how I can do it from a C program but how 
> do you it do with Python?

That depends on exactly how you're trying to shutdown Windows in C.
If you're doing it like this:

http://tinyurl.com/c22w

then you won't be able to do it the same way in Python.


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CARL BANKS