Printing from python on Windows platform

[Johann Spies]

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 david.stegbauer at cz.opel.com wrote:


> Printing under windows is not such easy. I personally write to a file,
> then I pass it to MS Word to print. I format the output using RTF, but I
> think there is no problem to use HTML and Netscape - then it is
> sufficient to spawn it like
> 
> from os import spawnv, P_NOWAIT spawnv(P_NOWAIT,
> r'D:\APP\NETSCAPE\PROGRAM\NETSCAPE.EXE', ('NETSCAPE.EXE',
> '/print("filename.html")')) 

That is quite complicated.  I do not have MS Word and do not know the file
structure of RTF or HTML at the moment.  I suppose to go this route it
will be easier for me to use LateX for formatted output.  After some
suggestions sent to me I am using l = open('LPT1',w) and l.write and it
works for just straight forward printing.

Thanks for your input.  As somebody who do not know windows, this is quite
new to me and I will experiment with your code to try and understand what
is happening.

Johann.
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