[Python-Dev] Still looking for volunteer to run Windows buildbot (original) (raw)

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Tue Mar 14 02:30:15 CET 2006

Roger on python-win32 had an answer which works for me:

[Roger Upole wrote] > WMI can list sound devices. > > import win32com.client > wmi=win32com.client.GetObject('winmgmts:') > scs=wmi.InstancesOf('win32sounddevice') > for sc in scs: > print sc.Properties('Name'), sc.Properties('Status') However, that requires PyWin32 so can't really use that for testwinsound.py. My understanding of ctypes is that it can NOT replace win32com, but I'd be happy to be wrong here. Thomas?

Maybe the following VBScript "port" of the above will work:

-- check_soundcard.vbs rem Check for a working sound-card - exit with 0 if OK, 1 otherwise. set wmi = GetObject("winmgmts:") set scs = wmi.InstancesOf("win32_sounddevice") for each sc in scs set status = sc.Properties_("Status") wscript.Echo(sc.Properties_("Name") + "/" + status) if status = "OK" then wscript.Quit 0 rem normal exit end if next rem No sound card found - exit with status code of 1 wscript.Quit 1

-- eof

Running "cscript.exe check_soundcard.vbs" and checking the return code should work. cscript.exe comes with all modern Windows variants, and although there may be ways to install Windows without it, I think we can safely assume it exists for these purposes.

Cheers,

Mark

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