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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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> 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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