Steaming PDF from Python Script to IE

[Erik Max Francis]

Stephen Thorne wrote:

> What you probably want is actually
> 
> print 'Content-Type: application/pdf\r\n\r\n',
> print out,
> 
> the ',' at the end of the line supresses lineendings. Also windows
> likes
> \r\n for CRLF, whereas you were just sending LF (which is sufficient
> for
> unixes).

If you want precise control over newlines and spaces in output, using a
print statement of almost any form is a bad example.  This is a
particularly good example, since what you suggest as it stands won't
work:

>>> print 'test',; print 'ing',
test ing

Note the space; by default print without the comma at the end prints a
newline, and with a comma at the end prints a _space_ instead.  This can
be changed through other means, but a much better (and quite frankly,
less ugly) approach is to use sys.stdout.write directly:'

>>> sys.stdout.write('test'); sys.stdout.write('ing')
testing

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