I've edited the subject line to be a little more clear. On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, John Corry wrote:
> I am using the following code to send a text file to the printer:- [ snip ] > This code works on windows XP + Windows 2000. However it does not work on > windows 98SE. Well, at least that narrows it down. This continues to befuddle me. I don't know enough about Windows to know the differences that might be here for this purpose. Question: do you need to use the Windows print function, or can you live with printing it yourself (as below)? For example, if you use the ShellExecute approach, it actually causes an application to be invoked for you, which does the printing, just as if you right-clicked on the file and selected "print." ON my system, for example, that will invoke Notepad, which prints it with a heading and a page number at the bottom. But, if you don't care about that, assuming your file is straight text, try the win32print approach from http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/win32_how_do_i/print.html . Here's an attempt that seems to work for me: ------------------------------- import win32print lines_to_print = open("testprint.txt","r").readlines() print_data = '' for line in lines_to_print: print_data=''.join([print_data,line,"\r"]) printer_name = win32print.GetDefaultPrinter() printer = win32print.OpenPrinter(printer_name) print_job = win32print.StartDocPrinter(printer, 1, ("Printer test", None, "RAW")) win32print.WritePrinter(printer, print_data) win32print.EndDocPrinter(printer) win32print.ClosePrinter(printer) ------------------------------- The for-loop is a kludge; my first attempt was something like print_data=open("testprint.txt","r").read() but it turns out my printer needs a carriage return on each line. I suspect that printer handling is more likely to be inconsistent between Win98 and Win/XP than the ShellExecute you were already using, and so this may not work; but it's worth looking into. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
