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  win32print BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-01 09:59 +0100
    Re: win32print Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-01 11:15 +0100
      Re: win32print BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-01 12:02 +0100
        Re: win32print Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2015-07-01 12:28 +0100
          Re: win32print BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-01 14:10 +0100
        Re: win32print Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-07-01 09:17 -0400

#93361 — win32print

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.)

-- 
Bartc

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#93362

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/

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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#93365

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!)

-- 
Bartc

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#93366

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

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#93371

On 01/07/2015 12:28, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 01/07/2015 12:02, BartC wrote:

>> Yes, I ended up there at one point, but didn't see a win32print.py file,

>> Presumably, nowhere on the internet is there a ready-to-use copy of
>> win32print.py that someone else could just download with little effort?

> 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.

OK, thanks, that now works. (I need to click on a .exe file not on .zip, 
and choose a version that corresponds with what's in the registry, which 
was 3.1 in my case, not 3.12 nor 3.4 which are also installed.

This would be a better basis for solving the problem (driving a bar-code 
printer). Although it's still not certain how I might distribute the 
result (just copy the whole directory Python 3.1 tree onto a memory 
stick perhaps and send that).

-- 
Bartc

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#93372

On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 12:02:36 +0100, BartC <bc@freeuk.com> declaimed the
following:

>
>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!
>
	So far as I know, there is no "win32print.py" file... The functions are
part of the win32 /library/, which is a compiled DLL (the file you found
sounds like it may have been the source file for part of the library).

-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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