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