[plug] Python

[David Dartnall]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:25 +0800, David Dartnall wrote:
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>>Maybe a bit OT, but I'm trying to learn to program with Python in
>>conjunction with Lantangen's Scripting Slides, Python Documentation and
>>pydoc...
>>And I can't seem to find how to redirect output to the printer...
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>>>>PRINTER_NAME="officehp"
>>>>PRINTER_COMMAND="lp -d%s" % PRINTER_NAME
>>>>import os
>>>>help(os.popen)
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>If you need to do really funky things you can look at a PostScript
>library or consider using ReportLab (which will generate PDF that CUPS
>will happily print). You could even look at bindings for
>libcups-client . Frankly though, for many cases just dumping plain text
>to the printer is enough.
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>Craig Ringer
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Thanks Craig that'll give me a lead
Dave Dartnall