John,
On Win 9X try
1) copying the text file to PRN: using os.system()
2) use the DIS PRINT command using os.system()
3) Try opening the file LPT1: and copying your text to that.
All of the above should work. But I no onger have a
Win9X box to check...
HTH,
Alan G.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Corry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:01 PM
Subject: [Tutor] Further help needed!
>I am using the following code to send a text file to the printer:-
>
> import win32api
> filename = "testprint.txt"
> fileobj=open (filename, "w")
> fileobj.write ("This is a test")
> fileobj.close()
> win32api.ShellExecute (
> 0,
> "print",
> filename,
> None,
> ".",
> 0
> )
>
> This code works on windows XP + Windows 2000. However it does not work on
> windows 98SE. I have tried this code on 3 seperate machines with windows
> 98SE. They all come up with the same error:
>
> File
> "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
> line 310, in RunScript
> exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
> File "C:\test\Script1.py", line 12, in ?
> 0
> error: (31, 'ShellExecute', 'A device attached to the system is not
> functioning.')
>
> Is there another way to print out a text file on windows 98SE? Do I have
> to
> do something different on the windows 98SE machine? Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John.
>
>
>
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