Printing From Python

[Thomas Heller]

michael at foord.net (Fuzzyman) writes:

> I looked through the manual, I looked on the web and could find very
> little on this subject....
>
> The closest I could find was :
> http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/4549.
>
> Saying that printing (to a printer :-) wasn't easy (at least on
> windows - let alone *cross* platform) - and that was dated 2000.
>
> Oh and - http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121462.html
> from 2002 giving two different methods for Unix and Windows... the
> windows one doesn't work across our network........

Although I am connected to a network printer, I have no problems opening
lpt1:, write some data to it, and the printer prints it:

C:\>net use
Neue Verbindungen werden gespeichert.


Status       Lokal     Remote                    Netzwerk

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[...]
Getrennt     LPT1      \\server\lexmarkps        Microsoft Windows-Netzwerk
Der Befehl wurde erfolgreich ausgeführt.


C:\>copy con: lpt1:
hello, world
^Z
        1 Datei(en) kopiert.

C:\>


Another thing that comes to mind is something like 'notepad /p x.txt'.

If you want to print other things than simple text files, it gets more
complicated IMO.

Thomas