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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!
>
> Is this something that actually can be downloaded somewhere? (Or is it
> obsolete, or a project that I have to build myself? In which case it'll
> probably be easier to write my own Win32 code but I was trying to avoid
> that.)
>

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/

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Mark Lawrence