writing to lpr printer

[François Pinard]

[Bob van der Poel]

> In tcl I can do things like:

> 	open("|lpr", 'w') 

> and tcl will open a pipe to lpr. The open in python doesn't behave this
> way...and I was very spoiled with the tcl varient. Is there an easy way
> to emulate this, or do I have to parse the filename looking for a
> leading '|', etc.?

Can't we easily live with:

   import os
   os.popen('lpr', 'w')

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard