Ejecting trays of CDs

[Dan08]

Hi everyone, I'm doing some experiences with python in Windows Vista and I was wondering to know how to eject the tray of CDs.

Thanks, Dan.

[scru]

Well, I'm not Dan, but here's a little hack adapted from http://www.dotnetspider.com/resources/15834-eject-close-cd-tray.aspx for Python. It's only two lines of code!
To open:

import ctypes
ctypes.windll.winmm.mciSendStringW("set cdaudio door open", None, 0, None)

To close:

import ctypes
ctypes.windll.winmm.mciSendStringW("set cdaudio door closed", None, 0, None)

Note, if you're using python 2.x, either change mciSendStringW to mciSendStringA, or change the first argument to a unicode string (recommended) by prefixing it with a lowercase u.

[Dan08]

Thanks Scru, it works perfectly.