[python-win32] How to enumerate a WMI object to discover its properties?

[python at bdurham.com]

Hi Tim,

Thanks to your help, here's what I'm using to record interesting
information about our workstation inventory. It works great!

c = wmi.WMI().Win32_ComputerSystem
computer = c()[0]
for propertyName in sorted( list( c.properties ) ):
	print '%s = %s' % ( propertyName, getattr( computer,
	propertyName, '' ) )

For those searching the archives, the same technique can be used to
capture BIOS info as well using the following replacement line.

c = wmi.WMI().Win32_BIOS

Thank you very much for your help and for all your Win32
contributions!!!

Cheers,
Malcolm


----- Original message -----
From: "Tim Golden" <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
To: 
Cc: "zz Python Win32 Newsgroup" <python-win32 at python.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:49:28 +0000
Subject: Re: [python-win32] How to enumerate a WMI object to discover
its properties?

On 04/03/2010 06:38, python at bdurham.com wrote:
> Is there a way to enumerate a WMI object's properties to discover
> what they are vs. having to explictly reference properties by
> name?

Assuming I understand the question, a quickie shortcut is
just to "print" the object:

<code>
import wmi

c = wmi.WMI ()
for s in c.Win32_ComputerSystem ():
   print s

</code>

but in fact each object also holds a list of its own properties:

<code>
import wmi

c = wmi.WMI ()
print list (c.Win32_ComputerSystem.properties)
print list (c.Win32_ComputerSystem.methods)

or you can do the same with an instance:

for s in c.Win32_ComputerSystem ():
   print list (s.properties)

</code>