[Tutor] Nearly there

[Alan Gauld]

I'm also curious, although not surprised - since this is why I tend not
to try to print using the API!, but another possibility is that Win98
doesn't recognise the dot shortcut for a path.

You may need to fill in the explicit path info:

> win32api.ShellExecute (
>  0,
>  "print",
>  os.path.abspath(filename),
>  None,
>  ".",   <---  try the full path here too.
>  0
> )

HTH,

Alan G.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Carroll" <carroll at tjc.com>
To: <tutor at python.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 12:23 AM
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.
>
>
>