On 01/07/2015 12:02, BartC wrote: > On 01/07/2015 11:15, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 01/07/2015 09:59, BartC wrote: >>> I need to print a text file to whatever printer in Windows is called >>> 'Generic/Text Only'. I looked for a Python solution and come across Tim >>> Golden's win32print module which looks perfect, eg: >>> >>> http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/win32print.html >>> >>> However, that tells me everything I need to know except how or where to >>> download it! > >> That's the standard pywin32 docs that happen to be on Tim's site. Get >> the latest pywin32 here >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20219/ > > Yes, I ended up there at one point, but didn't see a win32print.py file, > only a win32print.cpp one. I think messing about with C++ compilers and > makefiles (that never work properly under Windows) defeats the object of > trying to use Python for this purpose! > > Presumably, nowhere on the internet is there a ready-to-use copy of > win32print.py that someone else could just download with little effort? > > (Anyway, never mind; I'm looking at a solution now that involves > invoking Windows' rundll32 and notepad to do the job. And it saves the > problem of instructing someone on the end of a telephone how to install > even Python let alone locating the add-ons. > > This is task that, in the eighties, would have involved sending a > string, a byte at a time, to the parallel port, perhaps 3 lines of code. > It's great that in 2015 everything is so much simpler!) >
If I can interrupt your Jeremiad for a moment, this page might help: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/print.html and it (and the docs you found above) relies on this download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/ which, as you can see, has been available for every then-valid version of Python for some years now. TJG -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
