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Subject: Re: Running lpr on windows from python
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:01:59 -0700
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2016, at 06:57 AM, loial wrote:
> process = subprocess.Popen(commandline, shell=True,
> stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
> 
> where command line is
> C:/windows/system32/lpr.exe -S 172.28.84.38 -P RAW C:/john/myfile

Try making command line:
commandline = r"C:\windows\system32\lpr.exe -S 172.28.84.38 -P RAW
C:\john\myfile"

The r in front of the string makes it a raw string so you don't have to
double up the slashes.

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Stephen Hansen
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