import os instruction=""" Dim sCmd1 Dim sCmd2 Dim WshShell Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") sCmd1="net stop ITSMService" sCmd2="net start ITSMService" WshShell.Run sCmd1,0, True WScript.Sleep 3 WshShell.Run sCmd2,0, True """ import ctypes class disable_file_system_redirection: _disable = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection _revert = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64RevertWow64FsRedirection def __enter__(self): self.old_value = ctypes.c_long() self.success = self._disable(ctypes.byref(self.old_value)) def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback): if self.success: self._revert(self.old_value) temp=os.environ['TEMP'] vbsfile=temp+r'\itsm_restart.vbs' fobj= open(vbsfile, "w"); fobj.write(instruction) fobj.close() with disable_file_system_redirection(): print os.popen('cscript.exe '+vbsfile).read()