Greg Lindstrom wrote: > Hello- > I'm running Python 2.3 on a Linux system and have lots (about 2000) > files in pdf format to print each day. If I just wind up and fire all > the files at the printer at once (as 2000 separate print jobs), the > print server throws a fit and our system admin comes down and slaps me > around for a few minutes (which, I guess, is fair).
Are your sure it is the number (and not the sum of the sizes) of the jobs your admin is worrying about? What about #!/bin/sh for i in *.pdf; do lpr $i sleep 10 done (maybe adding something that waits until the queue is empty instead of sleep)? Ralf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
