Re: cups.Connection.printFile

[Antoon Pardon]

On 2008-09-16, Graham Jenkins <gr****@vpac.orgwrote:

>
I'm trying to print a file from within a Python program.

The quick-and-dirty solution is to use something like:

fd = os.popen("lp -d MyPrinter", "wb")
fd.write(MyFileContents)

But it seems to me that there should be a clean solution like:

import cups
stat =
cups.Connection.printFile("MyFile","MyPrinter","My Title","MyOptions")

What about systems that don't use cups for printing?

--
Antoon Pardon

[Mike Driscoll]

On Sep 19, 9:01*am, Antoon Pardon <[e-mail]:

On 2008-09-16, Graham Jenkins <[e-mail]:

I'm trying to print a file from within a Python program.

The quick-and-dirty solution is to use something like:

fd = os.popen("lp -d MyPrinter", "wb")
fd.write(MyFileContents)

But it seems to me that there should be a clean solution like:

import cups
stat =
cups.Connection.printFile("MyFile","MyPrinter","My Title","MyOptions")

What about systems that don't use cups for printing?

--
Antoon Pardon

For Windows, there's a few different ways to print. Tim Golden has a
list on his website:

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/print.html

Mike

[Antoon Pardon]

On 2008-09-26, Mike Driscoll <ky******@gmail.comwrote:

On Sep 19, 9:01*am, Antoon Pardon <[e-mail]:

>On 2008-09-16, Graham Jenkins <[e-mail]:

I'm trying to print a file from within a Python program.

The quick-and-dirty solution is to use something like:

fd = os.popen("lp -d MyPrinter", "wb")
fd.write(MyFileContents)

But it seems to me that there should be a clean solution like:

import cups
stat =
cups.Connection.printFile("MyFile","MyPrinter","My Title","MyOptions")

What about systems that don't use cups for printing?

--
Antoon Pardon

For Windows, there's a few different ways to print. Tim Golden has a
list on his website:

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/print.html

I have a linux system that doesn't use cups for printing.
So his "clean" solution won't work on my box. Unless
of course his cups.Connection.printFile is just a wrapper
around os.popen("lp -d MyPrinter", "wb") or something
similar.

--
Antoon Pardon

[Tim Golden]

Antoon Pardon wrote:

On 2008-09-26, Mike Driscoll <ky******@gmail.comwrote:

>On Sep 19, 9:01 am, Antoon Pardon <[e-mail]:

>>On 2008-09-16, Graham Jenkins <[e-mail]:

I'm trying to print a file from within a Python program.
The quick-and-dirty solution is to use something like:
fd = os.popen("lp -d MyPrinter", "wb")
fd.write(MyFileContents)
But it seems to me that there should be a clean solution like:
import cups
stat =
cups.Connection.printFile("MyFile","MyPrinter", "MyTitle","MyOptions")
What about systems that don't use cups for printing?

--
Antoon Pardon

For Windows, there's a few different ways to print. Tim Golden has a
list on his website:

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/print.html

I have a linux system that doesn't use cups for printing.
So his "clean" solution won't work on my box. Unless
of course his cups.Connection.printFile is just a wrapper
around os.popen("lp -d MyPrinter", "wb") or something
similar.

Well I certainly don't pretend to offer any solutions on
my "Win32 How do I?" pages except for how to do things
on Win32 ;) .

TJG