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Author	tim.golden
Recipients	Evernow, eryksun, lemburg, lukasz.langa, miss-islington, paul.moore, sahsariga111, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date	2022-03-28.07:10:50
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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> I don't see why the wmi module ( https://pypi.org/project/WMI/ ) can't be used instead to get the information Well I can speak here as the author of that module and as an (occasional) core developer. The wmi module stands on the shoulderes of the pywin32 win32com.client code -- which is an _enormous_ dependency to bring into Python. (And which no-one would realistically agree to...)

> I don't see why the wmi module ( https://pypi.org/project/WMI/ ) can't be used instead to get the information

Well I can speak here as the author of that module and as an (occasional) core developer. The wmi module stands on the shoulderes of the pywin32 win32com.client code -- which is an _enormous_ dependency to bring into Python. (And which no-one would realistically agree to...)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2022-03-28 07:10:50	tim.golden	set	recipients: + tim.golden, lemburg, paul.moore, lukasz.langa, zach.ware, eryksun, steve.dower, miss-islington, sahsariga111, Evernow
2022-03-28 07:10:50	tim.golden	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2022-03-28 07:10:50	tim.golden	link	issue45382 messages
2022-03-28 07:10:50	tim.golden	create