System printer object
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Jan 8 01:16:37 EST 2019
On 1/7/2019 5:17 PM, Dave wrote:
> I need to print to one or both of my system printers. I have not found
> a printer object in Python or in Tkinter. This needs to work with
> Linux, Window, and Mac. Can someone point me in the right direction?
> Ultimately, I want to have a File/Print in the menu that lets me select
> the printer and properties.
IDLE can print editor contents to the default printer. The code is in
idlelib.iomenu. The subprocess commands used are
print-command-posix=lpr %%s
print-command-win=start /min notepad /p %%s
I believe %%s becomes the name of the saved file.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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