Class _wmi_class

Overrides: _wmi_object.__init__

Make it slightly easier to query against the class, by calling the namespace's query with the class preset. Won't work if the class has been instantiated directly.

Make it slightly easier to query against the class, by calling the namespace's query with the class preset. Won't work if the class has been instantiated directly.

This is the equivalent to the raw-WMI SpawnInstance_
 method. Note that there are relatively few uses for
 this, certainly fewer than you might imagine. Most
 classes which need to create a new *real* instance
 of themselves, eg Win32_Process, offer a .Create
 method. SpawnInstance_ is generally reserved for
 instances which are passed as parameters to such
 .Create methods, a common example being the
 Win32_SecurityDescriptor, passed to Win32_Share.Create
 and other instances which need security.

The example here is Win32_ProcessStartup, which
controls the shown/hidden state etc. of a new
Win32_Process instance.

<pre class="code">
import win32con
import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()
startup = c.Win32_ProcessStartup.new (ShowWindow=win32con.SW_SHOWMINIMIZED)
pid, retval = c.Win32_Process.Create (
  CommandLine="notepad.exe",
  ProcessStartupInformation=startup
)
</pre>

NB previous versions of this module, used this function
to create new process. This is *not* a good example
of its use; it is better handled with something like
the example above.