Can I print from Python?

[Chris Liechti]

jimw1956 at cs.comnojunk (Jim Williams) wrote in
news:20020407103654.19127.00002640 at mb-fm.news.cs.com: 

> Hi all...I'm new to Python and really enjoying it so far, but I am
> somewhat perplexed that as far as I have seen it has no facilities for
> printing to a printer?  Surely this is possible. Someone please
> enlighten me...I have done a good bit of research and searching and
> can find no reference to how to do this. 

one neat solution is to use Reportlab to generate a PDF and you'll find an 
Acrobat reader on all big platforms today.

you can also look at some GUI systems. e.g. wxPython has some printing 
support etc. but when i need a printed output from a script, i generate a 
PDF.

chris

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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>