How to eject CD using WMI and Python?

Question

Using Windows' WMI library, how can I eject CD rom mounted in a specific CD/DVD drive?

I am asking for sources from WMI docs or examples since I am using wmi.py library on Python.

It would be great if solution satisfies Windows computer newer than Windows 2000 and having multi CD-ROMs. (i.e. I have D: F: drives and both are CD-ROM drives. I might want to eject cd in F: specifically.)

Searched on the net but could not find anything relevant. The last solution must be having 3rd party binaries and executing from the shell.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.