> I have little experience with programming. I have Python installed on a > Windows XP system. What code do I need to use to send output from a > Python script to a local printer attached to my workstation? to a > network printer?
Printing in windows is inordinately difficult although there are some modules around to help. In essence you have to draw the window as if you were drawing in a canvas object on the screen but using a printer device context. This is much too much like hard work and I generally do one of two things: 1) For plain text use the old DOS trick of sending output direct to the PRN: file/device - I can't remember if this still works in XP but I can't think why not... 2) For anything else generate HTML and then use the command line switches in the browser to generate the outpur using the default printer. Another option but its much more work is to create a PDF file for which task a 3rd party module exists somewhere. A lot depends on how complex your output needs to be. Text, Graphics or both. And how critical is the precision of your layout? HTH, Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
