can't find a way to display and print pdf through python.

[Larry Bates]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-02-12, Larry Bates <larry.bates at websafe.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I at least need the code for useing some library for
>>> connecting to acrobat reader and giving the print command on
>>> windows and some thing similar on ubuntu linux.
> 
>> Just let the registered .PDF viewer do it for you.
>>
>> os.start('myfile.pdf')
> 
> Eh?  I don't see os.start() it either 2.5 or 2.44
> documentation, and it's sure not there in 2.4.3:
> 
>    $ python
>    Python 2.4.3 (#1, Dec 10 2006, 22:09:09) 
>    [GCC 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)] on linux2
>    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
>    information.
>    >>> import os
>    >>> print os.start
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>    AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'start'
> 
> I did find os.startfile() in the docs, but it's shown as
> windows-only (it's not present under Linux).
> 
>> Launches whatever is registered as .PDF viewer and user
>> can then print, save, zoom, etc. on their own.
> 
> Really?
> 
My bad.  os.system()

-Larry