[python-win32] A little help for a n00b, please

2012-05-05 Thread Alan Jump
Trying to massage an older package (not written by me) into functioning order. The issue I'm having is getting printing functionality to work. The code snippet in question: if platform.system() == 'Windows': try: import win32api except:

Re: [python-win32] A little help for a n00b, please

2012-05-05 Thread Vernon Cole
First, make sure that you can type print somefile.txt on a console command line and get it to work. Often the old DOS style print command - which is what you are trying here - will not work on new Windows printers. You may very likely have to use a much more complex method involving the Windows