Doesn't anybody write to paper anymore?

[Albert Wagner]

I've searched the docs and my "Learning Python" book and I can't find
anything on printing to a real printer.  Through trial and error I
finally made the following work:

printer = open('/dev/lp0', 'w')
printer.write("page 1\n\r\f")
printer.write("page 2\n\r\f")
printer.close

But it writes directly to the printer port.  I would like to pass it
into the queue.  IO redirection in the shell is ugly and awkward.  Also,
assigning "printer" to "os.stdout" does not work.  Someone please help a
newbie.
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