Daniel McQuay wrote: > I wondering if any one uses Python to do such things as defragment, > clean up temp files, check for hard drive errors, check for unusual > processes running, and so on. I am in charge of maintaining a lot of > Windows PC's and it would make life so much easier if i could automate > some of these tasks. I am pretty new to Python but I seem to understand > it a little better than VB Script. I have been Googling Windows > Automation and getting some pretty good links but most if not all are > done using batch scripts and VB Script. I have a batch script that > cleans up temp files and defragments the hard drive but I would like to > know if Python is a good candidate for this or should I just stick to > what is built into Windows.
WMI is probably the answer to a lot of those kind of things. In general, if you have a sys-adminy task to do under Windows, put "WMI <sys-adminy-task>" into your favourite search engine and see what comes out.[0] Then get the Python WMI module [1] and convert the example from VBS to Python. And Bob's your uncle. [2] TJG [0] eg, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/aa394592.aspx [1] http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html [2] Well *my* uncle, at least: I do actually have an uncle called Bob. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
