True: there is an additional dependency (which was why I posted the pywin32-only version). I suppose if this were the only thing you were doing in which WMI helped then it would be a bit of an overhead. If you were doing admin-y things then you might well find it useful in any case.
An additional dependency isn't much of a problewm - it was just a side comment really.
At work we've switched to the IronPython solution since that is what the rest of our code is in.
I think that's the thing with IronPython -- it's a bit like using, say, Python2.5. That is, once you discover how neat and easy it is to do thing x (and if you have no particular requirement for backwards compatibility) then you just go further and further down the line of x.
I could make the case that the .NET framework is a dependency for IronPython, but that's rather unfair and I know it. I'm just as unsure as I think many others are where to go with IronPython -- if one doesn't have an established and clear need to use it.
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