Dictionary help

[Steve]

I'm currently working on a little database type program is which I'm
using a dictionary to store the information. The key is a component a and
the definition is a list of parts that make up the component. My problem
is I need to list out several components, but not all, and there
associated parts to a printer. Not having any luck. I can list them to
the screen but not the printer. Any help/ideas would be appreciated.

Steve

[Larry Bates]

Steve wrote:

I'm currently working on a little database type program is which I'm
using a dictionary to store the information. The key is a component a and
the definition is a list of parts that make up the component. My problem
is I need to list out several components, but not all, and there
associated parts to a printer. Not having any luck. I can list them to
the screen but not the printer. Any help/ideas would be appreciated.

Steve

Windows or Linux or Mac. Printers are handled differently on different
platforms. On Windows you can simply open LPT1, LPT2 or LPT3 as a file and
write to it (for simple printing). For more complex "Windows" printing you must
use Win32 extensions or something like wxWindows.

-Larry

[Steve]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:02:49 -0500, Larry Bates wrote:

Steve wrote:

>I'm currently working on a little database type program is which I'm
using a dictionary to store the information. The key is a component a
and the definition is a list of parts that make up the component. My
problem is I need to list out several components, but not all, and
there associated parts to a printer. Not having any luck. I can list
them to the screen but not the printer. Any help/ideas would be
appreciated.

Steve

Windows or Linux or Mac. Printers are handled differently on different
platforms. On Windows you can simply open LPT1, LPT2 or LPT3 as a file
and write to it (for simple printing). For more complex "Windows"
printing you must use Win32 extensions or something like wxWindows.

-Larry

I'm currently using Linux. I give it some more thought and research and
see what I can come up with. Thank you for the reply.

Steve

[wes weston]

Steve wrote:

I'm currently working on a little database type program is which I'm
using a dictionary to store the information. The key is a component a and
the definition is a list of parts that make up the component. My problem
is I need to list out several components, but not all, and there
associated parts to a printer. Not having any luck. I can list them to
the screen but not the printer. Any help/ideas would be appreciated.

Steve

You can do os.system("<some printing command; lp fn.txt, etc.>") after
putting your stuf in a file.

[Steve]

On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:16:10 -0700, wes weston wrote:

Steve wrote:

>I'm currently working on a little database type program is which I'm
using a dictionary to store the information. The key is a component a
and the definition is a list of parts that make up the component. My
problem is I need to list out several components, but not all, and
there associated parts to a printer. Not having any luck. I can list
them to the screen but not the printer. Any help/ideas would be
appreciated.

Steve

You can do os.system("<some printing command; lp fn.txt, etc.>") after
putting your stuf in a file.

Thank you for the reply. I finally got it printing in Linux.

Steve