CUPS or IPP in Python?

[Thomas Guettler]

Am Sun, 07 Mar 2004 17:43:47 +0000 schrieb Russell Lear:

> I'm interested in doing printing from within Python.  If someone has wrapped
> the CUPS library in Python, that'd be great.  Unfortunately, I can't find
> such a beast.  PyCUPS sounded good, but it seems to have evaporated.
> 
> If there isn't a CUPS wrapper, perhaps someone has implemented an IPP stack
> in Python?  Since CUPS uses IPP I should be able to use the printer's URI
> to submit jobs.  Right?

Hi,

what do you want to do?

If you just want to print a file. You can do this:

cmd='lpr -P fooprinter foodoc.ps'
ret=os.system(cmd)
if ret:
    raise("Error while '%s'" % cmd)

lpr is available for windows, too. But it needs to
be installed manually.

HTH,
 Thomas