使用Python的wmi模块删除网络打印机？

Question

For starters, here's the WMI module I'm referring to .

I've tried many combinations of code, and understand how to remove network printers with wmic from the command line, as well as a basic understanding on how to remove network printers with wmi in VB, etc. but I still can't figure out how to do so in this python module.

Does anyone have experience with this? I'm testing with PyDev in Eclipse, typically on a Windows 7 machine (which this program will be used for along with XP), but also on Windows 8.

Here's some code I've tried:

import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()

c.win32_printer("\\\\server\\printer").delete

And I get the following error:

wmi.x_wmi_invalid_query: <x_wmi: Unexpected COM Error (-2147217385, 'OLE error 0x80041017', None, None)>

Answer 1

A friend (who probably wishes to remain unnamed) found a solution!

for printer in c.win32_printer():
    if printer.DEVICEID == "\\\\server\\printer":
    printer.delete_()

For some reason, the server name (and possibly printer name) seem to be case-sensitive, so keep an eye out for that. I'd guess it's because python is case sensitive, and it's comparing via python, not WMI.