How to eject CD using WMI and Python?
You can use ctypes.
import ctypes
ctypes.windll.WINMM.mciSendStringW(u"set cdaudio door open", None, 0, None)
UPDATE:
If you have more that one drive, you can use to open command to initialize a specific device before calling the function above. For example (not tested).
ctypes.windll.WINMM.mciSendStringW(u"open D: type cdaudio alias d_drive", None, 0, None)
ctypes.windll.WINMM.mciSendStringW(u"set d_drive door open", None, 0, None)
Also, see the documentation on how to check return values
WMI itself doesn't provide means to eject CD/DVD drives. There're other solutions though, which involve using Windows API functions, for example:
Using the
mciSendString
function. Can't help you with the Python code, but here's the C# example to help you get the idea:mciSendString("open f: type cdaudio alias cdrom", null, 0, IntPtr.Zero); mciSendString("set cdrom door open", null, 0, IntPtr.Zero);
Using the
DeviceIOControl
function. An example (also in C#) is here.