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Support and warranty information using WMI (Python recipe) by Michael Grünewald
ActiveState Code (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577123/)

Shows the product code and serial number of a Thinkpad (of any computer with those information actually) and opens the Lenovo support and warranty pages for that system. It might work with other Lenovo computers too.

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import webbrowser
import wmi

base_url = "http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/"
support_url = base_url + "quickPath.do?sitestyle=lenovo&quickPathEntry=%s"
warranty_url = base_url + "warrantyLookup.do?sitestyle=lenovo&country=897&type=%s&serial=%s"

for csproduct in wmi.WMI().Win32_ComputerSystemProduct():
    # show information
    print "%s %s" % (csproduct.Vendor, csproduct.Version)
    print "%s %s" % (csproduct.Name, csproduct.IdentifyingNumber)
    
    # open support and warranty pages
    webbrowser.open(support_url % csproduct.Name)
    webbrowser.open(warranty_url % (csproduct.Name[:4], csproduct.IdentifyingNumber))

The recipe uses the wmi module from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/WMI/

It shows how to use the WMI module to gather some basic information about the computer system and how to open a web browser with a specific url.

Issues: I don't really know whether the country parameter changes anything but it has to be there.

Tags: thinkpad, win32, wmi