Printing in a generic way - like the rest of Python

[Ed Connell]

Thanks to all.

You have pushed back my horizons.

Ed



"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote in message
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> "Ed Connell" <connell at noflashspam.net> wrote in message
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> > No, I mean something as simple as printing an ASCI text file. (I
> mean
> > sending the file to the system printer.)  My program ran just fine
> in Linux,
> > (I used system( 'lpr %s' % filename ) and it worked just fine.
>
> 'system' call are not generic as they depend on program loaded and
> accessible on particular system.
>
> >Now I want  to make the same program run in MS-Windows, and wondered
> if there is some
> > generic way to send files to the printer as there are generic ways
> to delete
> > a file, say, and all sorts of other stuff.
>
> This might actually be a be a nice enhancement to os module...
>
> >  If the answer is no, then my next question is, how do you print a
> file in
> > the Windows world.
>
> Usually, from within an application that knows how to print a
> particular file type by selecting 'print' on its 'file' menu.  For
> ASCII text, Notepad works.  From an MSDOS prompt, "type file >lpt1:"
> does it (assuming your printer is connected to parallel port 1), but
> this does not send a formfeed, so you will have to hit the formfeed
> button on your printer.  This does not work from the windows Run
> prompt (on my machine), but this, for example, does:
> os.system(r"type c:\Python\tem.txt >lpt1:")
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> Terry J. Reedy
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