[Tutor] Nearly there

[John Corry]

Terry,

Your suggestion works.  It also works consistently if you fully define the
path of 'filename'.
eg
filename = "c:/test/testprint.txt"
You are right, shell execute seems to need the full path name with windows
98SE.  It is strange that it does not need the full path for win xp + win
2k.

Onto my next problem.

My text file is printing out in portrait.  Is there any instruction that I
can use so that notepad prints it in landscape?

Thanks,

John.

-----Original Message-----
From: tutor-bounces at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org]On
Behalf Of Terry Carroll
Sent: 07 January 2006 00:24
To: tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Nearly there


This is itching at me, too.

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, John Corry wrote:

> Can anyone understand or tell me why this works but the following code
does
> not:-
>
> import win32api
> filename = "testprint.txt"
> fileobj=open (filename, "w")
> fileobj.write ("This is a test")
> fileobj.close()
> win32api.ShellExecute (
>   0,
>   "print",
>   filename,
>   None,
>   ".",
>   0
> )

I'm wondering if ShellExecute needs a full path to find it under W98.

Try this; add to the top of your code:

import os.path

and change your ShellExecute to this:

win32api.ShellExecute (
  0,
  "print",
  os.path.abspath(filename),
  None,
  ".",
  0
)


I have no idea if this will work; and the error message you're getting,

> The code above gives me the error: (31, 'ShellExecute', 'A device attached
> to the system is not functioning.')

doesn't seem to indicate it, but it's one less thing.

I'd love to know the answer when you get it.

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