HELP Printing with wxPython
Mike Meyer
mwm at mired.org
Thu May 12 03:48:01 EDT 2005
jeff elkins <jeffelkins at earthlink.net> writes:
>> Instead, as was suggested earlier, use the "lpr" command and send it
>> the text/data on standard input. Any reasonably managed Unix system
>> should be able to handle a fair range of graphics formats, though
>> postscript is preferred.
> I've been using:
>
> p=os.popen('lp','w')
> p.write("some text')
> p.Close()
Yeah. System V called it lp. BSD called it lpr. Most modern systems
have both, as they are just a front end to the line printer (when was
the last time you saw an honest-to-gods line printer?) daemon.
<mike
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